al_register_sample_saver(3alleg5)

💖 al_register_sample_saver 💖

okay bestie, so this one is from the Allegro 5 API — manual section 3alleg5, and it's literally the glow-up your audio sample saving needed. it's giving "let me teach the engine a new file format" energy 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro_audio.h>

bool al_register_sample_saver(const char *ext,
   bool (*saver)(const char *filename, ALLEGRO_SAMPLE *spl))

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what this does is register a handler for al_save_sample(3alleg5). that function you hand over? yeah, it becomes the one in charge of saving sample files that have the extension you picked. main character responsibilities fr 💅

about that extension — it should include the leading dot (.) character, okay? don't be out here skipping it. and the matching is case-insensitive, so .WAV and .wav are the same thing, no drama ✨

also important, bestie: the saver argument can be NULL — that's how you unregister an entry. like, breaking up with the format but politely 🦋

returns true on success, false on error. and heads up — it also returns false if you try to unregister an entry that doesn't exist. yeah, ghosting something that was never there doesn't count 😭

ngl, that's the whole thing. short, sweet, iconic. no cap.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_register_sample_saver_f(3alleg5)
• al_register_sample_loader(3alleg5)

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Allegro reference manual · al_register_sample_saver(3alleg5) — that's a wrap, bestie, go forth and save those samples 💜🫶