DSXMENU feature request: Can we have a plain text line?

[NebularNerd]

I was looking at using DSXMENU inside DosBox to make things a little easier for games and apps when starting them from a frontend or bat. The menu itself does everything you need functionality wise, however I was wondering if we can have a simple non navigable text line entry.

For example:

[menu]
menutext=Awesome Game Menu
menuitem=choice_a,Menu item A
menuitem=choice_b,Menu item B
menuitem=choice_c,Menu item C
menudefault=choice_b,10

You can sort of do this with a dummy line menuitem=,Some text but it's still navigable. It would be handy for adding a title to the menu or some sort of hint about which option to select.

[NebularNerd]

I've had another look at the code and I think an easy way to make this feature work is the ignore and skip over any line in the .ini that has # for the choice value like:

[menu]
menuitem=#,A Line of text to quickly explain choices
menuitem=#,A Line of text to quickly explain choices
menuitem=choice_a,Menu item A
menuitem=choice_b,Menu item B
menuitem=choice_c,Menu item C
menudefault=choice_b,10  

Changes to the code [at lines 368-380]

doslib/tool/dsxmenu/dsxmenu.c

Lines 368 to 380 in ea25801

	menu_sel = 0;
	{
	unsigned int i;
	for (i=0;i < menu_items;i++) {
	struct menuitem *item = &menu[i];
	assert(item->menu_item_name != NULL);
	if (!strcmp(item->menu_item_name,menu_default_name)) {
	menu_sel = i;
	break;
	}
	}
	}

should be as follows:

    menu_sel = 0;
	 {
		unsigned int i;
		for (i = 0; i < menu_items; i++) {
			struct menuitem *item = &menu[i];

			assert(item->menu_item_name != NULL);
			if (strstr(item->menu_item_name, "#") != NULL) {
				continue;  // skip this item if '#' is found
			}
			if (!strcmp(item->menu_item_name, menu_default_name)) {
				menu_sel = i;
				break;
			}
		}
	}

I'm having trouble figuring out how to build with OpenWatcom, if anyone here can build this and see if it works that would be cool, if not I'll keep trying to learn how to compile with OpenWatcom. If I'm able to build and it works I'll open a PR, if anyone beats me to it that's cool 😎

EDIT:
Finally got Wacom to compile under Ubuntu WSA, but my idea did not work. Time to try something else....