al_set_menu_item_caption(3alleg5)

💅 al_set_menu_item_caption

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API — this one lives in the allegro5 manual and it's genuinely one of the cutest little glow-up functions in the whole native dialog lineup ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_set_menu_item_caption — she renames your menu items, no cap 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_native_dialog.h>

void al_set_menu_item_caption(ALLEGRO_MENU *menu, int pos, const char *caption)

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. three args and a dream 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So here's the tea: al_set_menu_item_caption updates the menu item caption with the new caption. That's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

You hand her a menu, you tell her which pos you're talking about, and you give her the fresh caption you want the world to see. boom. rebranded. main character energy fr fr 🌈

⚠️ BUT. and this is the important part, don't skip it — this will invalidate any previous calls to al_get_menu_item_caption. so if you were holding onto a caption you grabbed earlier, that pointer is giving expired, not iconic 😭 go get it again.

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

Available since 5.1.0 — she's been serving since the old days, a true veteran 💜

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_get_menu_item_caption — the reader to this writer, the bestie to this bestie 🍓

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and that's the whole page, babe 🌸 this was pulled straight from the Allegro reference manual, and the page itself is al_set_menu_item_caption(3alleg5) — go forth and rename things, you've got this 👑💖