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man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions

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Updated: July 2017
 
 

item_description(3CURSES)

Name

menu_item_name, item_name, item_description - get menus item name and description

Synopsis

cc [ flag ... ] file ... –lmenu –lcurses [ library .. ]
#include <menu.h>



char *item_name(ITEM *item);
char *item_description(ITEM *item);

Description

item_name() returns a pointer to the name of item.

item_description() returns a pointer to the description of item.

Return Values

These routines return NULL on error.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-Level
Unsafe

See Also

curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), menu_new(3CURSES), attributes(5)

Notes

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