Some important menu terminology

The following terms will be helpful:

item

a character string consisting of a name and an optional description

menu

a screen display that presents a set of items from which the user selects one or more, depending on the type of menu

connecting items to a menu

associating an array of item pointers with a menu

menu subwindow

a subwindow on which an associated menu is written

menu window

a window on which an associated menu subwindow and titles and borders, if any, are displayed

posting a menu

writing a menu on its associated subwindow

unposting a menu

erasing a menu from its associated subwindow

pattern matching

checking whether characters entered by the user match an item name of the menu

freeing a menu

deallocating the space for a menu and, as a byproduct, disconnecting an associated array of item pointers from a menu

freeing an item

deallocating the space for an item

NULL

generic term for a null pointer cast to the type of the particular object (item, menu, field, form, and so on)