Simple ncurses Menu System (WIP)

Features

• Create simple and sibling menus

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Documentation

• Create 3 menus

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ncurses.h>

#include "menu.h"
#include "config.h"

int main()
{
    /* Inits ncurses */
    initscr();
    noecho();
    curs_set(0);

    /* Sets up the color pair of the selected menu */
    start_color();
    init_pair(1, COLOR_BLUE, COLOR_BLACK);

    /* Each sub-array is the text of said windows/menu */
    const char* arr[NUM_OF_WINDOWS][MAX_ARR_SIZE] = {
        {"test1", "test2", "test3", NULL},
        {"test4", "test5", NULL},
        {"test6", "test7", "test8", "test9", NULL}
    };

    /* This creates the menus/windows with the text above */
    WINDOW* windows[NUM_OF_WINDOWS] = {
        create_window(10, 20, 1, 1, 3, arr[0]),
        create_window(10, 10, 1, 21, 2, arr[1]),
        create_window(10, 10, 1, 31, 4, arr[2])
    };

    /* This creates the actual menu */
    while (1) {
        menu_init(NUM_OF_WINDOWS, MAX_ARR_SIZE, arr, windows, 1);
    }
    endwin();
}

Output

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Keybindings

j - move cursor down
k - move cursor up
H - select menu to the left
L - select menu to the right

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Todo

• Make accessing the functions more user friendly
• An indicator showing which menu is currently selected
• Add other types of menus