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## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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## usage: menu (title, opt1, ...)
##
## See also: disp, printf, input
## Author: jwe
function num = menu (t, ...)
if (nargin < 2)
usage ("menu (title, opt1, ...)");
endif
## Force pending output to appear before the menu.
fflush (stdout);
## Don't send the menu through the pager since doing that can cause
## major confusion.
save_page_screen_output = page_screen_output;
unwind_protect
page_screen_output = 0;
if (! isempty (t))
disp (t);
printf ("\n");
endif
nopt = nargin - 1;
while (1)
va_start ();
for i = 1:nopt
printf (" [%2d] ", i);
disp (va_arg ());
endfor
printf ("\n");
s = "";
s = input ("pick a number, any number: ", "s");
if (strcmp (s, ""))
printf ("\n");
continue;
endif
eval (sprintf ("num = %s;", s));
if (! is_scalar (num) || num < 1 || num > nopt)
printf ("\nerror: input invalid or out of range\n\n");
else
break;
endif
endwhile
unwind_protect_cleanup
page_screen_output = save_page_screen_output;
end_unwind_protect
endfunction
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