al_open_fs_entry(3alleg5)

✨ NAME ✨

al_open_fs_entry — bestie, this is the Allegro 5 API 💖 (yes the whole manual page is literally just called that, we love a low-effort name)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_FILE *al_open_fs_entry(ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY *e, const char *mode)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: you've got an ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY *e and you wanna crack it open like a lil strawberry 🍓 and get an ALLEGRO_FILE(3alleg5) handle out of it, using the access mode you pass in. That's literally the whole thing. That's the function.

The tea ☕ is that this is like calling al_fopen(3alleg5) with the name of the filesystem entry — except it uses the appropriate file interface for that entry, and NOT whatever got set by the latest call to al_set_new_file_interface(3alleg5). So yeah, the global file interface setting does not get a vote here. She has her own opinion. Main character energy 👑

Returns the handle on success, NULL on error. That's it. If you get NULL, something went sideways and you should probably check yourself before you wreck yourself 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_fopen(3alleg5) — the cousin, the vibes, the lore 💜

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and that's the page!! ✨ this lil masterpiece lives in the Allegro reference manual, and it's the one and only al_open_fs_entry(3alleg5) — go forth and open filesystem entries responsibly, bestie 🫶💅