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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
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<H2>DIAGNOSTICS</H2><PRE>
- Each routine that returns a pointer returns <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> if an
- error occurs. Each routine that returns an int value
+ Each routine that returns a pointer returns <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> if an
+ error occurs. Each routine that returns an int value
returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG> if it executes successfully and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> if not.
</PRE>
<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
- 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
- programming interface is unchanged). The <STRONG>PANEL</STRONG> data
- structures are merely similar. The programmer is cau-
- tioned not to directly use <STRONG>PANEL</STRONG> fields.
-
- The functions <STRONG>show_panel()</STRONG> and <STRONG>top_panel()</STRONG> are identical
- in this implementation, and work equally well with dis-
+ 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 <STRONG>PANEL</STRONG> data structures
+ are merely similar. The programmer is cautioned not to
+ directly use <STRONG>PANEL</STRONG> fields.
+
+ The functions <STRONG>show_panel()</STRONG> and <STRONG>top_panel()</STRONG> are identical
+ in this implementation, and work equally well with dis-
played or hidden panels. In the native System V implemen-
tation, <STRONG>show_panel()</STRONG> is intended for making a hidden panel
- visible (at the top of the stack) and <STRONG>top_panel()</STRONG> 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
+ visible (at the top of the stack) and <STRONG>top_panel()</STRONG> 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.
</PRE>
<H2>NOTE</H2><PRE>
- In your library list, libpanel.a should be before libn-
- curses.a; that is, you want to say `-lpanel -lncurses',
+ 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).
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20130518).
</PRE>
<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
- 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
+ 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.
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