GLUTMENUSTATEFUNC(3)

💅 GLUTMENUSTATEFUNC 💅

okay bestie, so this is glutMenuStateFunc from section 3 of the manual — it's a deprecated variant of glutMenuStatusFunc() and honestly? it's giving legacy energy. but you still gotta know it, so let's go 🫶

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

OpenGLUT — and the vibe here is deprecated, like fully. 💀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <openglut.h>

void
glutMenuStateFunc(void( *callback )( int status ));

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• callback — your client menu status hook, aka the lil function that's supposed to get pinged when stuff happens. it's the main character of this whole page, no cap. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, bestie: broadly speaking, OpenGLUT operates in two modes. at any given moment it is either in menu mode (meaning there's a popup menu display happening, possibly with subitems, the whole production 🌈) or it is not. that's it, those are the two options, periodt.

when the system moves from non-menu to menu status, callback — if it's defined, obviously — gets called with GLUT_MENU_IN_USE. slay. ✨

and conversely, when it moves from menu back to non-menu status, callback — again, if defined — gets called with GLUT_MENU_NOT_IN_USE. iconic, we love a symmetric API. 💖

oh and important: this callback is bound to both the current window and the current menu. both of them. at the same time. iykyk. 🦋

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😭 CAVEATS 😭

it's obsolete. it's depcreated. (yes, that's literally how it's spelled in the original — i am not fixing it, i'm just the messenger 🫡). basically, do not build your whole personality around this function.

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💀 BUGS 💀

not me having to tell you this but... your callback is not actually called presently. like. at all. it just. does not fire. 🙈 so if you were counting on it, bestie, that's a vibe check it is not passing.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• glutMenuStatusFunc(3) — the glow-up version, go look at that one instead fr fr

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this page came to you from the mysterious lands of UNDATED and UNTITLED() — yeah, no author, no date, it's giving anonymous. mystery era. 🕵️‍♀️ stay hydrated and read the non-deprecated one bestie 💜🎀