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Sortix nightly manual

This manual documents Sortix nightly, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

current_item, item_index, set_current_item, set_top_row top_row — get or set item pointers or top row

LIBRARY

Curses Menu Library (libmenu, -lmenu)

SYNOPSIS

#include <menu.h>
ITEM *
current_item(MENU *menu);
int
item_index(ITEM *item);
int
set_current_item(MENU *menu, ITEM *item);
int
set_top_row(MENU *menu, int row);
int
top_row(MENU *menu);

DESCRIPTION

The current_item() returns a pointer to the current menu item. The set_current_item() can be used to set this to the item give. The item_index() function returns the index number in the array of items for the item pointed to by the item parameter. The set_top_row() function sets the top row of the menu displayed to be the row given. The current item becomes the leftmost item of the top row. The top_row() call returns the row number that is currently at the top of the displayed menu.

RETURN VALUES

current_item() returns NULL if no items are attached to the menu.
E_OK
The function was successful.
E_BAD_ARGUMENT
One or more of the arguments passed to the function was incorrect.
E_BAD_STATE
The function was called from within an initialization or termination routine.
E_NOT_CONNECTED
The item is not connected to a menu.

SEE ALSO

curses(3), menus(3)

NOTES

The header <menu.h> automatically includes both <curses.h> and <eti.h>.
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