shutdown_menu(3)

💖 shutdown_menu(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this one is from the Allegro manual — the game programming library — and it's the little cleanup goblin that lives at the end of your menu's whole arc. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

shutdown_menu — destroys a menu player object that init_menu() handed you, and tells you what the user actually picked. Allegro game programming library, no cap. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int shutdown_menu(MENU_PLAYER *player);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, bestie: shutdown_menu() destroys a menu player object — the kind that init_menu() gave you — and it also returns the index of the menu item that was selected. 👑

If the menu got cancelled instead? You get -1. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

And like, if you're sitting there thinking "wait, this feels familiar" — you're so right, because this return value is the same as the return value from do_menu(). literally identical energy. no cap. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• init_menu(3) — where the menu player object comes from in the first place 🌈
• update_menu(3) — the one doing the actual updating while you're in there ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 💜

this has been Allegro, version 4.4.3 — k bye, go destroy some menu players responsibly 🎀✨💖