new(3menu)

new3menu

Create and destroy menus

Usage

#include <menu.h>

MENU *new_menu(ITEM **items); int free_menu(MENU *menu);

Overview

The function new_menu creates a new menu connected to a specified item pointer array (which must be NULL-terminated).

The function free_menu disconnects menu from its item array and frees the storage allocated for the menu.

Return value

The function new_menu returns NULL on error. It sets errno according to the function's failure:

E_NOT_CONNECTED

No items are connected to the menu.

E_SYSTEM_ERROR

System error occurred, e.g., malloc failure.

The function free_menu 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_POSTED

The menu has already been posted.

Portability

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

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1–1.3
  2. 2.0
  3. 2.1
  4. 2.2
  5. 3.0
  6. 3.1
  7. 4.0
  8. 5.0–6.0
  9. 7–8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13

Authors

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

From ncurses-doc 6.5+20250216-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.