requestname(3menu)

requestname3menu

Handle printable menu request names

Usage

#include <menu.h>

const char *menu_request_name(int request); int menu_request_by_name(const char *name);

Overview

The function menu_request_name returns the printable name of a menu request code.
The function menu_request_by_name searches in the name-table for a request with the given name and returns its request code. Otherwise E_NO_MATCH is returned.

Return value

menu_request_name returns NULL on error and sets errno to E_BAD_ARGUMENT.
menu_request_by_name returns E_NO_MATCH on error. It does not set errno.

Portability

These routines are specific to ncurses. They were not supported on Version 7, BSD or System V implementations. It is recommended that any code depending on them be conditioned using NCURSES_VERSION.

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 2.0
  2. 2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0–6.0
  8. 7–8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13

Authors

Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric S. Raymond.

From ncurses-doc 6.5+20250216-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.