nurses menus, and windows.

Hey, I hope you can help. ive been batteling with this for about 2 days now.

I would like to create a menu at a specific position within a window. At the moment it just creates the menu, and places it at the upper left corner of the window. I would like it say, at the bottom right of the window. How could I do this ?

I've posted a bit of code below, i've commeneded myself on what I think most of the functions do, however, im not completly sure. This is only a bit of code from the program - if you need more bits, just ask

Code:

	int number_choices, i;
		
	ITEM **my_items;

	number_choices = ARRAY_SIZE(items); // how many choices do we have in the CHOICES variable, load this into number_choices
	my_items = (ITEM **)calloc(number_choices + 1, sizeof(ITEM *)); // create menu items depending on number_choices, if we have 4 choices, we make 4 items.

	for(i = 0; i < number_choices; ++i) // while ' i ' is under number of choices we have, add 1 to i, and add a new item
		
		{
			
			my_items[i] = new_item(items[i], items[i]); // assign these new items to the text choices.
			
		}

	xc_menu = new_menu((ITEM **)my_items); // create and print the menu from the items, that have just been assigned their choices text
	
	xc_window=newwin(w,x,y,z);	// create a new window, for our new menu
	keypad(xc_window, TRUE); // enable keyboard selection for our new window

	set_menu_win(xc_menu, xc_window); // put the menu window the window 
    set_menu_sub(xc_menu, derwin(xc_window, 1, 1, 5,1)); // what the $$$$ does this do ?
	set_menu_mark(xc_menu, ">> "); // put a pretty selection thingy on.
	set_menu_position(xc_menu, 0,0);
	
	wbkgd(xc_window,COLOR_PAIR (4) );  // colorize the new window
	box(xc_window,ACS_VLINE,ACS_HLINE); // border the new window
		
	post_menu(xc_menu); // print the menu		
	wrefresh(xc_window); // print the window

Many thanks in advance.

> I would like it say, at the bottom right of the window.

Perhaps, change the 0,0 in this call?
set_menu_position(xc_menu, 0,0);

Oh, nah. that was just a random function I tried. It doesnt exist. There seems to be loads of set_menu type functions that deal with these menus. But I cant find a list...

Any other thoughts, anyone ?

My god, I cant believe no one can answer this ... anyone, help...

Well perhaps you should reply with better information than "Oh, nah. that was just a random function I tried. It doesnt exist."
Like say a complete program which demonstrates the problem, not some random junk you just hacked together.

Most of us have never used that particular menu library you're using. Just test each individual function to make sure that you can work it properly (maybe 4 or 5 test ranges per parameter). Then group the initialization code, the code that alters appearance, graphics code, and so forth into more modular units.
You could even throw it into a class. Just don't forget to test. And above all, read all the documentation you can (or working code), and keep it at your side at all times (even, better, memorize it).