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31 .Dd September 10, 1999
38 .Nd get or set value for an item
44 .Fn item_value "ITEM *item"
46 .Fn set_item_value "ITEM *item" "int flag"
48 .Fn item_selected "MENU *menu" "int **array"
52 function returns value of the item.
53 If the item has been selected then this value will be TRUE.
54 The value can also be set by calling
56 to set the value to a defined state.
57 Setting the value to a value
58 other than TRUE or FALSE will have undefined results.
61 function returns the number of items that are selected in the menu, that
62 is the number of items whose value is TRUE.
63 The indexes of the selected
64 items will be returned in
66 which will be dynamically allocated to hold the number of indexes.
67 It is the responsibility of the caller to release this storage by calling
69 when the storage is no longer required.
70 If there are no elements selected in the items array then
77 will return one of the below return values which are less than 0.
79 The functions return one of the following error values:
81 .Bl -tag -width E_REQUEST_DENIED -compact
83 The function was successful.
84 .It Er E_NOT_CONNECTED
85 The item is not connected to a menu.
86 .It Er E_REQUEST_DENIED
87 The menu driver could not process the request.
89 A system error occurred whilst processing the request.
96 .Pa \*[Lt]menu.h\*[Gt]
97 automatically includes both
98 .Pa \*[Lt]curses.h\*[Gt]
100 .Pa \*[Lt]eti.h\*[Gt] .
106 extension and must not be used in portable code.