X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fpanel.3x.html;h=a8ba3393648d8aa254390b0c2c762b2ea4b7d781;hb=746490c7ab9f66c7521c500684e65eca223c551c;hp=9a9ac9fcc711ad74d14d268648e85a9ce2b93896;hpb=aa70bf3c762c5b6407bf34812d63c20f7ac8ffdd;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/panel.3x.html b/doc/html/man/panel.3x.html index 9a9ac9fc..a8ba3393 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/panel.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/panel.3x.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- +-panel(3x) panel(3x) +panel(3x) panel(3x) @@ -72,91 +72,80 @@
- Panels are curses(3x) windows with the added feature of - depth. Panel functions allow the use of stacked windows - and ensure the proper portions of each window and the - curses stdscr window are hidden or displayed when panels - are added, moved, modified or removed. The set of cur- - rently visible panels is the stack of panels. The stdscr - window is beneath all panels, and is not considered part - of the stack. + Panels are curses(3x) windows with the added feature of depth. Panel + functions allow the use of stacked windows and ensure the proper por- + tions of each window and the curses stdscr window are hidden or dis- + played when panels are added, moved, modified or removed. The set of + currently visible panels is the stack of panels. The stdscr window is + beneath all panels, and is not considered part of the stack. - A window is associated with every panel. The panel rou- - tines enable you to create, move, hide, and show panels, - as well as position a panel at any desired location in the - stack. + A window is associated with every panel. The panel routines enable you + to create, move, hide, and show panels, as well as position a panel at + any desired location in the stack. - Panel routines are a functional layer added to curses(3x), - make only high-level curses calls, and work anywhere ter- - minfo curses does. + Panel routines are a functional layer added to curses(3x), make only + high-level curses calls, and work anywhere terminfo curses does.
new_panel(win) - allocates a PANEL structure, associates it with - win, places the panel on the top of the stack - (causes it to be displayed above any other - panel) and returns a pointer to the new panel. - - update_panels() - refreshes the virtual screen to reflect the rela- - tions between the panels in the stack, but does not - call doupdate() to refresh the physical screen. - Use this function and not wrefresh or wnoutrefresh. - update_panels may be called more than once before a - call to doupdate(), but doupdate() is the function - responsible for updating the physical screen. + allocates a PANEL structure, associates it with win, places + the panel on the top of the stack (causes it to be displayed + above any other panel) and returns a pointer to the new panel. + + update_panels + refreshes the virtual screen to reflect the relations between + the panels in the stack, but does not call doupdate to refresh + the physical screen. Use this function and not wrefresh or + wnoutrefresh. update_panels may be called more than once before + a call to doupdate, but doupdate is the function responsible for + updating the physical screen. del_panel(pan) - removes the given panel from the stack and deallo- - cates the PANEL structure (but not its associated - window). + removes the given panel from the stack and deallocates the + PANEL structure (but not its associated window). hide_panel(pan) - removes the given panel from the panel stack and - thus hides it from view. The PANEL structure is not - lost, merely removed from the stack. + removes the given panel from the panel stack and thus hides it + from view. The PANEL structure is not lost, merely removed from + the stack. panel_hidden(pan) - returns TRUE if the panel is in the panel stack, - FALSE if it is not. If the panel is a null - pointer, return ERR. + returns TRUE if the panel is in the panel stack, FALSE if it is + not. If the panel is a null pointer, return ERR. show_panel(pan) - makes a hidden panel visible by placing it on top - of the panels in the panel stack. See COMPATIBILITY - below. + makes a hidden panel visible by placing it on top of the panels + in the panel stack. See COMPATIBILITY below. top_panel(pan) - puts the given visible panel on top of all panels - in the stack. See COMPATIBILITY below. + puts the given visible panel on top of all panels in the stack. + See COMPATIBILITY below. bottom_panel(pan) puts panel at the bottom of all panels. move_panel(pan,starty,startx) - moves the given panel window so that its upper-left - corner is at starty, startx. It does not change - the position of the panel in the stack. Be sure to - use this function, not mvwin(), to move a panel - window. + moves the given panel window so that its upper-left corner is at + starty, startx. It does not change the position of the panel in + the stack. Be sure to use this function, not mvwin, to move a + panel window. replace_panel(pan,window) - replaces the current window of panel with window - (useful, for example if you want to resize a panel; - if you're using ncurses, you can call replace_panel - on the output of wresize(3x)). It does not change - the position of the panel in the stack. + replaces the current window of panel with window (useful, for + example if you want to resize a panel; if you're using ncurses, + you can call replace_panel on the output of wresize(3x)). It + does not change the position of the panel in the stack. panel_above(pan) - returns a pointer to the panel above pan. If the - panel argument is (PANEL *)0, it returns a pointer - to the bottom panel in the stack. + returns a pointer to the panel above pan. If the panel argument + is (PANEL *)0, it returns a pointer to the bottom panel in the + stack. panel_below(pan) - returns a pointer to the panel just below pan. If - the panel argument is (PANEL *)0, it returns a - pointer to the top panel in the stack. + returns a pointer to the panel just below pan. If the panel + argument is (PANEL *)0, it returns a pointer to the top panel in + the stack. set_panel_userptr(pan,ptr) sets the panel's user pointer. @@ -169,35 +158,41 @@
- Each routine that returns a pointer returns NULL if an - error occurs. Each routine that returns an int value - returns OK if it executes successfully and ERR if not. + Each routine that returns a pointer returns NULL if an error occurs. + Each routine that returns an int value returns OK if it executes suc- + cessfully and ERR if not.
- Reasonable care has been taken to ensure compatibility - with the native panel facility introduced in SVr3.2 - (inspection of the SVr4 manual pages suggests the program- - ming interface is unchanged). The PANEL data structures - are merely similar. The programmer is cautioned not to - directly use PANEL fields. - - The functions show_panel() and top_panel() are identical - in this implementation, and work equally well with dis- - played or hidden panels. In the native System V implemen- - tation, show_panel() is intended for making a hidden panel - visible (at the top of the stack) and top_panel() is - intended for making an already-visible panel move to the - top of the stack. You are cautioned to use the correct - function to ensure compatibility with native panel - libraries. + Reasonable care has been taken to ensure compatibility with the + native panel facility introduced in System V (inspection of the SVr4 + manual pages suggests the programming interface is unchanged). The + PANEL data structures are merely similar. The programmer is cautioned + not to directly use PANEL fields. + + The functions show_panel and top_panel are identical in this implemen- + tation, and work equally well with displayed or hidden panels. In the + native System V implementation, show_panel is intended for making a + hidden panel visible (at the top of the stack) and top_panel is + intended for making an already-visible panel move to the top of the + stack. You are cautioned to use the correct function to ensure compati- + bility with native panel libraries.
- In your library list, libpanel.a should be before libn- - curses.a; that is, you want to say `-lpanel -lncurses', - not the other way around (which would usually give a link- - error). + In your library list, libpanel.a should be before libncurses.a; that + is, you should say "-lpanel -lncurses", not the other way around (which + would give a link-error with static libraries). + + +
+ The panel facility was documented in SVr4.2 in Character User Interface + Programming (UNIX SVR4.2). + + It is not part of X/Open Curses. + + Aside from ncurses, only systems based on SVr4 source code, e.g., + Solaris provide this library.
@@ -209,18 +204,17 @@
curses(3x), curs_variables(3x), - This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20160730). + This describes ncurses version 6.1 (patch 20180519).
- Originally written by Warren Tucker <wht@n4hgf.mt- - park.ga.us>, primarily to assist in porting u386mon to - systems without a native panels library. Repackaged for - ncurses by Zeyd ben-Halim. + Originally written by Warren Tucker <wht@n4hgf.mt-park.ga.us>, primar- + ily to assist in porting u386mon to systems without a native panels + library. Repackaged for ncurses by Zeyd ben-Halim. - panel(3x) + panel(3x)