al_save_bitmap_f(3alleg5)

💖 al_save_bitmap_f 💖

okay bestie, so this one's from the Allegro 5 API (that's 3alleg5 if you're keeping track, which you should be 🫶) and it's literally the moment your gorgeous little bitmap gets to escape into the wild. let's go ✨

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_save_bitmap_f(ALLEGRO_FILE *fp, const char *ident,
   ALLEGRO_BITMAP *bitmap)

no cap, that's the whole vibe right there 👑

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So what it does is it takes an ALLEGRO_BITMAP(3alleg5) and saves it into an ALLEGRO_FILE(3alleg5) stream. that's it, that's the job 💅

and how does it know what format to write?? the way that it just asks the ident parameter, which is a file name extension including the leading dot. so like, dot included, don't be out here forgetting the dot, i'm begging 🙈

it returns true on success and false on error — super straightforward, main character energy fr fr. and the file remains open afterwards, so don't go closing it behind its back, it's still living its life 🌸

⚠️ okay important thing, listen up: the core Allegro library does not support any image file formats by default. like, none. zero. it's giving minimalist 😭. so you either need the allegro_image addon, or you register your own format handler. iykyk 🔥

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_save_bitmap(3alleg5)
• al_register_bitmap_saver_f(3alleg5)
• al_init_image_addon(3alleg5)

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and that's the whole page babes 💜 this one lives in the Allegro reference manual as al_save_bitmap_f(3alleg5) — go forth and save those bitmaps, you're doing amazing, periodt 🦋✨