SDL_AsyncIOQueue(3type)

💖 SDL_AsyncIOQueue 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 DATATYPES corner of the manual, pull up a chair 🫶 this one's about SDL_AsyncIOQueue, and it's genuinely one of the most chill little structs in all of SDL, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_AsyncIOQueue — a whole queue of completed asynchronous I/O tasks. it's giving "to-do list but for tasks that are already done," which sounds backwards but trust, it slays 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_asyncio.h>

typedef struct SDL_AsyncIOQueue SDL_AsyncIOQueue;

that's it. that's the whole thing. an opaque struct and an include. iconic minimalism ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe. when you kick off an asynchronous operation, you gotta tell it which queue the new task belongs to. that's the assignment. that's the whole point of the queue's existence 🎀

and then — plot twist — later on, you can just ask the queue whether any of the tasks in it have finished. that's it. that's the mechanic.

the way this slays is that it lets an app juggle a whole pile of pending tasks all in one place, in whatever order they complete. not the order you started them. not any order you planned. the order the universe decides. and the queue is totally fine with that, it's very go-with-the-flow 🌈

so instead of chasing down every single task individually like a stressed-out main character, you got one queue, one place to check, and everything reports back there. lowkey genius fr fr 💜

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this struct has been around since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on anything older, bestie, it's not there, sorry 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, go say hi:

• SDL_CreateAsyncIOQueue(3)
• SDL_ReadAsyncIO(3)
• SDL_WriteAsyncIO(3)
• SDL_GetAsyncIOResult(3)
• SDL_WaitAsyncIOResult(3)

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okay that's the page!! and real quick, the glow-up credits at the bottom: this lil beauty comes to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18, filed under SDL_AsyncIOQueue(3type). go build something that reads files without blocking, bestie, you got this 💖✨🎀🦋