On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Bill Gray wrote: > On 6/15/26 16:56, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 02:57:45PM -0400, Bill Gray wrote: > > > Hmmm... please post the test code you're using for this? Have you > > > tried > > > it with PDCursesMod? (Its panel library is a near-total rewrite, but its > > > move_panel() does use mvwin() internally.) > > > > yes... a test-program is needed to see how it compares with the > > various implementations :-) > > It occurs to me to wonder : is the panel library warranteed to work if > you feed it a pad (or subpad or sub-window) instead of a plain old window? > I've never tried it. > > Is there a use case for calling new_panel( ) with a pad?
maybe - but pads differ from windows by being more readily movable > > -- Bill > > > > -- Bill > > > > > > On 6/15/26 14:20, Giorgos Xou wrote: > > > > move_panel internally uses mvwin, which doesn't work with pads (pdcurses > > > > seems to be affected by this as well). Maybe pnoutrefresh could be used > > > > internally for that specific case or some kind of an alternative new > > > > mvpad function? > > > > > > > > (It just happened that I was again looking deep into how panels work > > > > internally and just happened to stumble upon this issue.) > > > > > > > > *Cross-refs: * > > > > 3. ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211106 > > > > <https://github.com/mirror/ncurses/commit/f399f54c6c4ea2143afcbf704ce9af0be52b63fc> > > > > 2. hide_panel/show_panel not working with pads. > > > > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00037.html> > > > > 1. https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/issues/124 > > > > <https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/issues/124> > > > > > > > > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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