AL_GET_MENU_ITEM_CAPTION(3)

💅 al_get_menu_item_caption(3)

okay so bestie, this one is from the Library Functions Manual (Allegro 5 API, we been knew 👑), and it's literally the read-only twin of the setter. it's giving "just tell me what the label says" energy and honestly? iconic. 😌

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✨ NAME ✨

al_get_menu_item_caption — the Allegro 5 API function that hands you the caption of a menu item 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro_native_dialog.h>

const char *al_get_menu_item_caption(ALLEGRO_MENU *menu, int pos)

like, you pass it a menu and a position, and it gives you back a const char *. simple. slay. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically: it returns the caption associated with the menu item. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

the string it gives you is valid as long as the caption is not modified — so like, don't go changing the caption behind its back and then act surprised when the pointer you're holding is sus. it's valid until the caption changes, periodt. ✨

and if the item was not found, it returns NULL. no cap, that's the failure mode — check for it, bestie, don't just raw-dog that pointer. 😭

ngl, NULL is your "this item does not exist" signal and not me being dramatic — that's just what the page says 💀

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.1.0 — so it's been around a minute, it's a classic, main character energy since day one 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_set_menu_item_caption(3) — the setter! the one where you actually change stuff. go read it, iykyk 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no filler, no fluff, ate and left no crumbs 🍓

Allegro reference manual — that's the source footer, and the page is filed under al_get_menu_item_caption(3) too, so like… full circle ✨🎀 bye!