           menu - curses extension for programming menus

## SYNOPSIS

           #include

## DESCRIPTION

           The  menu library provides terminal-independent facilities
           for composing menu systems  on  character-cell  terminals.
           The library includes: item routines, which create and mod-
           ify menu items; and menu routines, which group items  into
           menus, display menus on the screen, and handle interaction
           with the user.

           The menu library uses the curses libraries, and  a  curses
           initialization  routine  such  as  initscr  must be called
           before using any of these  functions.   To  use  the  menu
           library, link with the options -lmenu -lcurses.

       Current Default Values for Item Attributes
           The  menu  library  maintains  a  default  value  for item
           attributes.  You can get or set this  default  by  calling
           the  appropriate  get_  or  set_  routine with a NULL item
           pointer.  Changing  this  default  with  a  set_  function
           affects  future  item  creations,  but does not change the
           rendering of items already created.

       Routine Name Index
           The following table lists each menu routine and  the  name
           of the manual page on which it is described.

           l   l   .    curses   Routine   Name Manual  Page  Name  =
           current_item   mitem_current(3X)                 free_item
                mitem_new(3X)       free_menu            menu_new(3X)
           item_count     menu_items(3X)
           item_description    mitem_name(3X)
           item_index     mitem_current(3X)                 item_init
                menu_hook(3X) item_name      mitem_name(3X) item_opts
                mitem_opts(3X)          item_opts_off  mitem_opts(3X)
           item_opts_on   mitem_opts(3X) item_term      menu_hook(3X)
           item_userptr   mitem_userptr(3X)
           item_value     mitem_value(3X)  item_visible   mitem_visi-
           ble(3X)          menu_back                menu_attribs(3X)
           menu_driver    menu_driver(3X)                   menu_fore
                menu_attribs(3X)       menu_format    menu_format(3X)
           menu_grey               menu_attribs(3X)         menu_init
                menu_hook(3X) menu_items     menu_items(3X) menu_mark
                menu_mark(3X)       menu_opts           menu_opts(3X)
           menu_opts_off  menu_opts(3X)  menu_opts_on   menu_opts(3X)
           menu_pad        menu_attribs(3X)  menu_pattern   menu_pat-
           tern(3X)     menu_request_by_name     menu_requestname(3X)
                menu_win(3X)       menu_term            menu_hook(3X)
           menu_userptr   menu_userptr(3X)                   menu_win
                menu_win(3X)  new_item        mitem_new(3X)  new_menu
                menu_new(3X)      pos_menu_cursor     menu_cursor(3X)
           post_menu     menu_post(3X)    scale_menu     menu_win(3X)
           set_current_item    mitem_current(3X)
           set_item_init  menu_hook(3X) set_item_opts  mitem_opts(3X)
           set_item_term  menu_hook(3X)
           set_item_userptr    mitem_userptr(3X)
           set_item_value mitem_value(3X)
           set_menu_back  menu_attribs(3X)
           set_menu_fore  menu_attribs(3X)
           set_menu_format     menu_format(3X)
           set_menu_grey  menu_attribs(3X)
           set_menu_init  menu_hook(3X) set_menu_items menu_items(3X)
           set_menu_mark  menu_mark(3X) set_menu_opts  mitem_opts(3X)
           set_menu_pad   menu_attribs(3X)
           set_menu_pattern    menu_pattern(3X)
           set_menu_spacing    menu_spacing(3X)
           set_menu_sub   menu_win(3X)   set_menu_term  menu_hook(3X)
           set_menu_userptr    menu_userptr(3X)
           set_menu_win   menu_win(3X)      set_top_row    mitem_cur-
           rent(3X)          top_row                mitem_current(3X)
           unpost_menu    menu_post(3X)

## RETURN VALUE

           Routines that return pointers return NULL on error.   Rou-
           tines  that  return an integer return one of the following
           error codes:

           E_OK The routine succeeded.

           E_SYSTEM_ERROR
                System error occurred (see errno).

           E_BAD_ARGUMENT
                Routine detected an incorrect or  out-of-range  argu-
                ment.

           E_POSTED
                The menu is already posted.

           E_BAD_STATE
                Routine was called from an initialization or termina-
                tion function.

           E_NO_ROOM
                Menu is too large for its window.

           E_NOT_POSTED
                The menu has not been posted.

                The menu driver code saw an unknown request code.

           E_NO_MATCH
                Character failed to match.

           E_NOT_SELECTABLE
                The designated item cannot be selected.

           E_NOT_CONNECTED
                No items are connected to the menu.

           E_REQUEST_DENIED
                The menu driver could not process the request.

## SEE ALSO

           curses(3X) and 3X pages  whose  names  begin  "menu_"  for
           detailed descriptions of the entry points.

## NOTES

           The header file  automatically includes the header
           files  and .

           In your library list, libmenu.a  should  be  before  libn-
           curses.a; that is, you want to say `-lmenu -lncurses', not
           the other way around (which would give you  a  link  error
           using GNU ld(1) and many other linkers).

## 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  ncurses
           by Eric S. Raymond.