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man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions

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Updated: July 2017
 
 

pos_menu_cursor(3CURSES)

Name

menu_cursor, pos_menu_cursor - correctly position a menus cursor

Synopsis

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



int pos_menu_cursor(MENU *menu);

Description

pos_menu_cursor() moves the cursor in the window of menu to the correct position to resume menu processing. This is needed after the application calls a curses library I/O routine.

Return Values

This routine returns one of the following:

E_OK

The routine returned successfully.

E_SYSTEM_ERROR

System error.

E_BAD_ARGUMENT

An incorrect argument was passed to the routine.

E_NOT_POSTED

The menu has not been posted.

Attributes

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-Level
Unsafe

See Also

curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), panel_update(3CURSES), panels(3CURSES), attributes(5)

Notes

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