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Mac 101: The Menu Bar

Feast your eyes on the top of your screen. See that semi-transparent bar that spans across the entire width of your desktop? That's the menu bar—a vital component to your everyday Mac life. Though you can't tell by just looking at it, the menu bar hosts many functions and commands to complete your tasks at hand.

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MENU_POST(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					      MENU_POST(3)

NAME

     post_menu, unpost_menu -- post (draw) or unpost a menu

LIBRARY

     Curses Menu Library (libmenu, -lmenu)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <menu.h>

     int
     post_menu(MENU *menu);

     int
     unpost_menu(MENU *menu);

DESCRIPTION

     The post_menu() function causes the menu to be drawn on the screen.  Any functions defined by either set_menu_init() or set_item_init() (see
     menu_hook(3)) are called before the menu is placed on the screen.	The unpost_menu() does the opposite, it removes a menu from the screen.
     Any functions defined by both set_menu_term() and set_item_term() (see menu_hook(3)) are called prior to the menu's removal.

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.
     E_BAD_ARGUMENT   One or more of the arguments passed to the function was incorrect.
     E_POSTED	      The menu is already posted.
     E_BAD_STATE      The function was called from within an initialization or termination routine.
     E_NO_ROOM	      The menu does not fit within the subwindow.
     E_NOT_CONNECTED  The item is not connected to a menu.

SEE ALSO

     curses(3), menu_hook(3), menus(3)

NOTES

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

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