menu_cursor(3x)

menu_cursor3x

Position a menu's cursor

Usage

#include <menu.h>

int pos_menu_cursor(const MENU *menu);

Overview

The function pos_menu_cursor restores the cursor to the current position associated with the menu's selected item. This is useful after curses routines have been called to do screen-painting in response to a menu select.

Return value

This routine returns one of the following:

E_OK

The routine succeeded.

E_SYSTEM_ERROR

System error occurred (see errno(3)).

E_BAD_ARGUMENT

Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argument.

E_NOT_POSTED

The menu has not been posted.

Portability

These routines emulate the System V menu library. They were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.

Authors

Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric S. Raymond.

From ncurses 6.6-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.