Re: move_panel not working with pads

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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 tri=
ed
> 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 :-)
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> -- Bill
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> 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=A0could be us=
ed
> > internally for that specific case or some kind of an alternative new
> > mvpad function?
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> > (It just happened that I was again looking deep=A0into how panels work
> > internally and just happened to stumble upon=A0this issue.)
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> > *Cross-refs: *
> > 3. ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211106 <https://github.com/mirror/ncurses/comm=
it/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>
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