al_release_haptic(3alleg5)

💖 al_release_haptic — Allegro 5 API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the 3alleg5 corner of the Allegro reference manual, where we say goodbye to haptics the polite way 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_release_haptic(ALLEGRO_HAPTIC *haptic)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like. you got a haptic device, you were rumbling, it was iconic. but now you're done with it, and it's time to let it go 🦋 al_release_haptic releases the haptic device and all its resources when you don't need it anymore. no hoarding, we don't do that here 💅

you should also call this if your joystick configuration changed — say, a joystick got hot plugged 👀 (yes that's the actual term, iykyk).

and here's the cute part: this function also automatically releases all the haptic effects that are still uploaded to the device — the ones you never manually let go of with al_release_haptic_effect(3alleg5). so it's like a little cleanup fairy for your effects ✨🧚

it returns true on success, or false if the haptic device couldn't be released for literally any reason — like NULL being passed in, the device not being active, or a failure in the driver 😭

ngl, that false can come from a few places, so don't just assume it worked, bestie. check it. 👑

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.1.8

[Unstable API]: Perhaps could be simplified due to limited support for all the exposed features across all of the platforms. Awaiting feedback from users. 💀 fr fr, this one's still in its experimental era. it works, but it's giving "we're still figuring this out" energy. feedback welcome 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• al_release_haptic_effect(3alleg5)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🫶 this was al_release_haptic from the Allegro reference manual, living on the 3alleg5 page — mwah, go release your haptics responsibly 💅🎀✨