AuElementState(3)

✨ AuElementState(3) ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair 💖 this is a page from the Library Functions Manual, and it's about AuElementState — yes, that's the whole name, AuElementState(3), section 3, library functions, we're in the grown-up section but we're still gonna have fun.

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🎀 Name 🎀

AuElementState — the element state structure. that's it, that's the vibe. element state structure 💅

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🦋 Structures 🦋

first things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <audio/audiolib.h>

and here's the struct, in all its glory, no cap:

typedef struct _AuElementState
{
    AuFlowID flow;
    unsigned char element_num;
    unsigned char state;
    unsigned short pad;
}AuElementState;

look at her. she's small but she's doing so much. 👑

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💜 Members 💜

• flow — specifies the flow. that's the flow, babe. 🌀
• element_num — specifies the index of the element of interest. and here's the plot twist: if you wanna reach the state of the flow itself, use AuElementAll. yes literally, that's the move. use AuElementAll to access the state of the flow. 🌸
• state — specifies the state of the element (or flow) specified by element_num. this one has to be one of these constants, and only these:
  • AuStateStop
  • AuStateStart
  • AuStatePause

pick one, bestie, those are the options. no improvising. 🎯

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🌈 Description 🌈

so the AuElementState structure is the thing you use to access the state of elements inside a flow. simple concept, big responsibility. 🫶

and here's the part people always miss — not everything has state. only flows and component elements do. the component elements are:

• ExportBucket
• ExportClient
• ExportDevice
• ImportClient
• ImportDevice
• ImportBucket
• ImportWaveForm

those seven. if it's not a flow and it's not on that list, it does not have state, and it's not gonna have state, periodt. 💀 don't ask it for one.

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⭐ See Also ⭐

• AuGetElementStates
• AuMakeElementState
• AuGetElementStates

(yes it's listed twice, and honestly? iconic. we love a callback. 🔥)

• audiolib — Network Audio System C Language Interface

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 go forth and check your element states, you've got this, i believe in you fr fr 🧚✨

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this page is from audiolib, version 1.9.4, dated with all the love of AuElementState(3) — audiolib - element state structure, and that's the sign-off, byeee 🎀💖