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-<STRONG><A HREF="panel.3x.html">panel(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="panel.3x.html">panel(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="panel.3x.html">panel(3x)</A></STRONG>
<STRONG><A HREF="panel.3x.html">panel(3x)</A></STRONG>
(causes it to be displayed above any other
panel) and returns a pointer to the new panel.
- <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>update_panels()</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>update_panels()</STRONG>
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.
thus hides it from view. The <STRONG>PANEL</STRONG> structure is not
lost, merely removed from the stack.
+ <STRONG>panel_hidden(pan)</STRONG>
+ returns TRUE if the panel is in the panel stack,
+ FALSE if it is not. If the panel is a null
+ pointer, return ERR.
+
<STRONG>show_panel(pan)</STRONG>
makes a hidden panel visible by placing it on top
of the panels in the panel stack. See COMPATIBILITY
<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 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.
+ (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-
<H2>NOTE</H2><PRE>
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 give you a link
- error using GNU <STRONG><A HREF="ld.1.html">ld(1)</A></STRONG> and some other linkers).
+ not the other way around (which would usually give a link-
+ error).
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.6 (patch 20080621).
+
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="panel.3x.html">panel(3x)</A></STRONG>
+
<STRONG><A HREF="panel.3x.html">panel(3x)</A></STRONG>
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