al_create_popup_menu(3alleg5)

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version 5.2.11.3 · 4 versions
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💖 al_create_popup_menu 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API corner of the manual, specifically the page for al_create_popup_menu(3alleg5) 🌸 pull up a chair, this one's short and sweet and you're gonna eat it up.

✨ NAME ✨

al_create_popup_menu — literally the glow-up function for making popup menus happen 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_native_dialog.h>

ALLEGRO_MENU *al_create_popup_menu(void)

no arguments, no drama, it just takes void and gives you a menu pointer back 🎀

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so the whole vibe here: this function creates a menu container for popup menus. that's the job. that's the assignment. periodt.

the ONE thing you have to remember, and I mean it, this is the rule: only the root (that's the outermost) menu should be created with this function. like, top-level only. main character energy only. nobody else gets in. 🙈

the sub menus of popups? those do NOT come from here, bestie. those get created with al_create_menu(3alleg5) instead. do not mix these up, I'm begging 😭

and if it doesn't work out, it returns NULL on failure. so check your pointer, fr fr.

lowkey important: root menu = this function. sub menus of popups = al_create_menu(3alleg5). write that down. 💜

🌈 SINCE 🌈

5.1.0 — so it's been iconic for a minute ⭐

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

and that's the whole page, you're done, slay 💅 this was the Allegro reference manual's take on al_create_popup_menu(3alleg5), so go forth and build your menus, bestie 🧚✨

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