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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

item_userptr, set_item_userptr — get or set user pointer for an item

LIBRARY

Curses Menu Library (libmenu, -lmenu)

SYNOPSIS

#include <menu.h>
void *
item_userptr(ITEM *item);
int
set_item_userptr(ITEM *item, void *userptr);

DESCRIPTION

The item_userptr() function returns the value of the user defined pointer for the given item, this pointer is defined by the set_item_userptr() function.

RETURN VALUES

The functions return one of the following error values:
E_OK
The function was successful.
E_SYSTEM_ERROR
There was a system error during the call.

SEE ALSO

curses(3), menus(3)

NOTES

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