Re: move_panel not working with pads

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?

-- 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>
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