al_build_menu(3)

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🎀 al_build_menu(3) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual page for al_build_menu(3) — this is the Allegro 5 API, and we're literally about to build a menu. no cap. 💅✨

🦋 NAME 🦋

al_build_menu — Allegro 5 API. that's the whole name block: this is the function that builds you a menu. periodt. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro_native_dialog.h>

ALLEGRO_MENU *al_build_menu(ALLEGRO_MENU_INFO *info)

that's the include and the signature, verbatim — do not @ me, the compiler will. 😌💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so al_build_menu builds a menu based on the specifications of a sequence of ALLEGRO_MENU_INFO elements. it's giving “menu assembly, but make it API.” 🛠️🎀

it returns a pointer to the root ALLEGRO_MENU, or NULL on failure. and if you want to gain access to the other menus and items, you're gonna need to search for them using al_find_menu_item(3) — iykyk. 🔎💫

⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.1.0 — been iconic since then. 🌈👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the bestie cross-refs, go read them next. mwah. 💌

from the Allegro reference manual, page al_build_menu(3) — the footer didn't give us a date, so no fake timestamp, just a lil 💌 and a 🫶. byeee.

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