gui_menu_draw_menu(3)

🌸 gui_menu_draw_menu(3) 🌸

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Allegro manual — yes, the Allegro game programming library, we love a retro gaming era moment 💖 — and it's literally the glow-up button for your menus.

✨ NAME ✨

gui_menu_draw_menu, gui_menu_draw_menu_item — hooks to modify the appearance of menus. Allegro game programming library.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

extern void (*gui_menu_draw_menu)(int x, int y, int w, int h);

extern void (*gui_menu_draw_menu_item)(MENU *m, int x, int y, int w,
int h, int bar, int sel);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — if you set these function pointers, they get called whenever a menu needs to be drawn, which means you get to change how menus look. yes, you. full creative control, main character energy, no cap. 👑

• gui_menu_draw_menu() — you get handed the position and size of the menu. it's your job to draw the background of the menu onto screen. that's it, that's the assignment, slay. ✨
• gui_menu_draw_menu_item() — this one gets called once for each menu item that is to be drawn. and listen, it has lore:
  • bar will be set if the item is part of a top-level horizontal menu bar 🍫
  • sel will be set if the menu item is selected 👆

it should also draw onto screen, bestie. don't just sit there looking pretty.

fr fr, both of them draw straight onto screen — that's the whole vibe, no middleman, no offscreen canvas drama. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

...okay so the original is lowkey giving nothing here, the SEE ALSO section is empty. it's giving minimalist. it's giving "we trust you to find your own way." 🙈 iconic of Allegro honestly.

and that's the page, bestie — written against Allegro version 4.4.3 🫶 go forth and make those menus pretty, you absolute legend. ⭐