Per this thread, there are some discrepancies in features between the Lua and C APIs as it pertains to the audio subsystem.
There may be other cases where differences exist, but the user is particularly interested in these:
- Lua
playdate.sound.sampleplayer:setLoopCallback()accepts userdata arguments. - C
playdate->sound->sampleplayer->setLoopCallback()does appear to be implemented inpd_api_sound.h, but is not documented in Inside Playdate with C. It does not accept userdata arguments. - Lua
playdate.sound.sampleplayer:setFinishCallback()accepts userdata arguments. - C
playdate->sound->sampleplayer->setFinishCallback()does not accept userdata arguments.
Ideally, the C version of the callback functions would be changed to accept a void *context argument like playdate->sound->addSource(), although this comes with the caveat in that it would cause existing programs to fail to compile. This approach will keep the API from getting bloated with afterthoughts.
The bloated-afterthought alternatives include either making a setFoobarCallbackEx() variant of each function that does accept a userdata argument, or implementing setUserData(SoundSource *, void *) and getUserData(SoundSource *) functions within playdate->sound.
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