Manual pages › X Window and screen libraries (3X)

menu_new(3X)

create and destroy menus

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

NAME

menu_new: new_menu, free_menu - create and destroy menus

SYNOPSIS

#include <menu.h>

MENU *new_menu(ITEM **items);

int free_menu(MENU *menu);

DESCRIPTION

new_menu creates a new menu connected to the item pointer array items and returns a pointer to the new menu.

free_menu disconnects menu from its associated item pointer array and frees the storage allocated for the menu.

RETURN VALUE

new_menu returns NULL on error.

free_menu returns one of the following:
E_OK           - The routine returned successfully.
E_SYSTEM_ERROR - System error.
E_BAD_ARGUMENT - An incorrect argument was passed to the routine.
E_POSTED       - The menu is already posted.

NOTES