Re: move_panel not working with pads

Bill Gray <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:57:45 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.ncurses.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
    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.)

-- 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>