[fol] Re: "ncurses"--help needed......

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"Nitin" <nitin_manohar _at_ yahoo.com> writes:

You have probably got follows from other newsgroups ...

>Hi,
>  I'm using menu library of ncurses library for development of a tool. While
> executing a
> program segmentation fault is coming, and core dumped. After several checks
> I'm not able to find the bug. I'm running on RedHat Linux 6.2 and SuSE
> Linux.

I've never used (n)curses, but I think new_menu counts the number of
items from it's argument array, and the array must be terminated with
NULL.

> ITEM * myitem[2];

 ITEM * myitem[3];

> MENU *  menu[1];
>
> if((myitem[0] = new_item("Menu", "love")) == NULL ){
>  printf("\n Error on new item");
>  exit(1);
> }
>
> if((myitem[1] = new_item("Menu-2nd", "love")) == NULL ){
>  printf("\n Error on 2nd new item");
>  exit(1);
> }

  myitem[2] = NULL;

> initscr(); /* Initilise the Curses*/
>
> menu[0] = new_menu(myitem); / * Here segmentation fault is coming......core
> dumped*/
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