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26fe186541Suwe.Dd October 28, 2015
27fe186541Suwe.Dt PANEL_HIDDEN 3
28fe186541Suwe.Os
29fe186541Suwe.Sh NAME
30fe186541Suwe.Nm hide_panel ,
31fe186541Suwe.Nm show_panel ,
32fe186541Suwe.Nm panel_hidden
33fe186541Suwe.Nd visibility of panels
34fe186541Suwe.Sh LIBRARY
35fe186541Suwe.Lb libpanel
36fe186541Suwe.Sh SYNOPSIS
37fe186541Suwe.In panel.h
38fe186541Suwe.\"
39fe186541Suwe.Ft int
40fe186541Suwe.Fn hide_panel "PANEL *p"
41fe186541Suwe.\"
42fe186541Suwe.Ft int
43fe186541Suwe.Fn show_panel "PANEL *p"
44fe186541Suwe.\"
45fe186541Suwe.Ft int
46fe186541Suwe.Fn panel_hidden "PANEL *p"
47fe186541Suwe.\"
48fe186541Suwe.Sh DESCRIPTION
49*ed8dd388SwizPanels are initially created visible.
500c624ce4SuweThe function
510c624ce4Suwe.Fn hide_panel
520c624ce4Suwecan be used to hide a panel.
530c624ce4SuweThe panel is removed from the deck.
540c624ce4Suwe.Pp
550c624ce4SuweA panel can be made visible again with a call to
560c624ce4Suwe.Fn show_panel .
570c624ce4SuweThe panel is returned to the top of the deck.
580c624ce4Suwe.Pp
59*ed8dd388SwizThe current visibility status of a panel can be queried with
600c624ce4Suwe.Fn panel_hidden .
610c624ce4Suwe.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
620c624ce4SuweThe
630c624ce4Suwe.Fn show_panel
640c624ce4Suwefunction will return an error if the panel is already visible.
650c624ce4SuweUse
660c624ce4Suwe.Xr top_panel 3
670c624ce4Suweto change z-order of an already visible panel.
680c624ce4SuweThis is the behaviour specified by the original
690c624ce4Suwe.At V
700c624ce4Suwepanel library.
710c624ce4Suwe.Pp
720c624ce4SuweIn the ncurses implementation of the panel library
730c624ce4Suwe.Fn show_panel
740c624ce4Suweand
750c624ce4Suwe.Fn top_panel
760c624ce4Suweare identical and handle both visible and hidden panels.
770c624ce4SuweThis may be a source of bugs in programs tested only against ncurses.
780c624ce4Suwe.Sh RETURN VALUES
790c624ce4SuweThe
800c624ce4Suwe.Fn panel_hidden
810c624ce4Suwefunction returns
820c624ce4Suwe.Dv TRUE
830c624ce4Suweor
840c624ce4Suwe.Dv FALSE .
850c624ce4SuweIt will return
860c624ce4Suwe.Dv ERR
870c624ce4Suweif passed a null pointer.
880c624ce4Suwe.Pp
890c624ce4SuweOther functions will return one of the following values:
900c624ce4Suwe.Pp
910c624ce4Suwe.Bl -tag -width ".Dv ERR" -compact
920c624ce4Suwe.It Dv OK
930c624ce4SuweThe function completed successfully.
940c624ce4Suwe.It Dv ERR
950c624ce4SuweAn error occurred in the function.
960c624ce4Suwe.El
97fe186541Suwe.Sh SEE ALSO
98fe186541Suwe.Xr panel 3
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