From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with Allegro GUI, or an Allegro bug?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:16:50 +0100
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Jose Agustin Vericat writes:
>I have created a main menu, like an IDE, and I have two options from that
>menu that doesn't need any sub-menu. I put one ghost sub-menu with NULL
>options because I want that it highlited when the cursor go over it, but if
>I do so, when I press the UP key, the program crashes. 

Do you mean you are adding a child menu without any contents, ie. the
very first item in the list has a NULL 'text' field? That is indeed
going to upset the Allegro routines: they weren't written to handle zero
size menus. Instead, try giving the sub-menu a single entry with an
empty text string ("" rather than NULL).


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