AuGetErrorDatabaseText(3)

✨ AuGetErrorDatabaseText ✨

okay bestie, so this is AuGetErrorDatabaseText(3) from the Library Functions Manual, and it lives in <audio/audiolib.h> — it's giving "error messages but make it a database" 💅

🌸 Name 🌸

AuGetErrorDatabaseText — get an error message from the error database 💖

🎀 Synopsis 🎀

#include <audio/audiolib.h>

void AuGetErrorDatabaseText(server, name, message, default_string,
buffer_return, length)
    AuServer *server;
    char *name;
    char *message;
    char *default_string;
    char *buffer_return; /* RETURN */
    int length;

🦋 Arguments 🦋

• server — Specifies the connection to the audio server. like, your lil link to the audio server, bestie 🔌
• name — Specifies the name of the application. yes queen, your app's name ✨
• message — Specifies the type of the error message. the vibe of the error, if you will 😭
• default_string — Specifies the default error message if none is found in the database. the fallback text, the understudy, the backup bestie 🫶
• buffer_return — Returns the error description. this is where the actual words land 📥
• length — Specifies the size of the buffer. how much room buffer_return has, no cap 📏

💜 Description 💜

okay so here's the tea 🍵 — the AuGetErrorDatabaseText function copies the default_string and returns it in buffer_return.

that's it. that's the whole function. the name and message arguments are ignored. literally ignored. not consulted. not even glanced at. they're just there standing in the corner like 🧍 at a party they weren't invited to 💀

so if you were expecting it to go dig through an error database and pull out a bespoke, custom-tailored message based on your name and message? nah bestie. it copies default_string straight into buffer_return and calls it a day. main character energy from default_string only, fr fr 👑

🌈 See Also 🌈

• AuServerName
• AuGetErrorText
• AuSetErrorHandler
• AuSetIOErrorHandler
• AuSynchronize
• audiolib — Network Audio System C Language Interface

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was the error handling chapter of audiolib, version 1.9.4, dated right there with AuGetErrorDatabaseText(3) stamped on it — slay, mwah, periodt 💖✨