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author | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2023-10-17 09:52:12 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2023-10-17 09:52:12 +0000 |
commit | 4dd5152bda3754d6c8238063f70a240feb2e0e01 (patch) | |
tree | 6761e0e8227c4b726ec8793dfd89d53fcf7c2e8a /lib/libpanel/panel.3 | |
parent | 19c1736b607cf07af1e272ef5638ff0d90b4faff (diff) |
Update ncurses and associated libraries (form, panel, menu) to
6.4-20230826 (from 5.7-20081102).
Based on result from Thomas Dickey's ncu2openbsd script and then
modified. Switches to the upstream tput. Major bump for the ncurses
libraries and for libedit and libreadline.
Help from tb, millert.
ok deraadt sthen
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libpanel/panel.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libpanel/panel.3 | 321 |
1 files changed, 202 insertions, 119 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libpanel/panel.3 b/lib/libpanel/panel.3 index 46918c9f0b9..9a97a71d1c2 100644 --- a/lib/libpanel/panel.3 +++ b/lib/libpanel/panel.3 @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: panel.3,v 1.10 2015/11/12 12:44:27 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: panel.3,v 1.11 2023/10/17 09:52:10 nicm Exp $ .\" .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey * +.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -28,168 +29,250 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: panel.3,v 1.10 2015/11/12 12:44:27 jmc Exp $ -.TH panel 3 "" -.ds n 5 -.ds d /usr/share/misc/terminfo +.\" $Id: panel.3,v 1.11 2023/10/17 09:52:10 nicm Exp $ +.TH panel 3 2023-08-19 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls" +.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq +.el .ds `` `` +.ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq +.el .ds '' '' +.de bP +.ie n .IP \(bu 4 +.el .IP \(bu 2 +.. .SH NAME -new_panel, bottom_panel, top_panel, show_panel, update_panels, -hide_panel, panel_window, replace_panel, move_panel, panel_hidden, -panel_above, panel_below, set_panel_userptr, panel_userptr, del_panel -- panel stack extension for curses +panel \- panel stack extension for curses .SH SYNOPSIS -\fB#include <panel.h>\fR +\fB#include <panel.h>\fP .P -\fBcc [flags] sourcefiles -lpanel -lncurses\fR +\fBcc [flags] sourcefiles \-lpanel \-lncurses\fP .P -\fBPANEL *new_panel(WINDOW *win)\fR +\fBPANEL *new_panel(WINDOW *\fIwin\fB);\fR +.sp +\fBint bottom_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR .br -\fBint bottom_panel(PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBint top_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR .br -\fBint top_panel(PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBint show_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR .br -\fBint show_panel(PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBvoid update_panels(void);\fP .br -\fBvoid update_panels();\fR +\fBint hide_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR +.sp +\fBWINDOW *panel_window(const PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR .br -\fBint hide_panel(PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBint replace_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB, WINDOW *\fIwindow\fB);\fR .br -\fBWINDOW *panel_window(const PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBint move_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB, int \fIstarty\fB, int \fIstartx\fB);\fR .br -\fBint replace_panel(PANEL *pan, WINDOW *window)\fR +\fBint panel_hidden(const PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR +.sp +\fBPANEL *panel_above(const PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR .br -\fBint move_panel(PANEL *pan, int starty, int startx)\fR +\fBPANEL *panel_below(const PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR +.sp +\fBint set_panel_userptr(PANEL *\fIpan\fB, const void *\fIptr\fB);\fR .br -\fBint panel_hidden(const PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBconst void *panel_userptr(const PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR +.sp +\fBint del_panel(PANEL *\fIpan\fB);\fR +.sp +\fR/* ncurses-extensions */\fP .br -\fBPANEL *panel_above(const PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBPANEL *ground_panel(SCREEN *\fIsp\fB);\fR .br -\fBPANEL *panel_below(const PANEL *pan)\fR -.br -\fBint set_panel_userptr(PANEL *pan, const void *ptr)\fR -.br -\fBconst void *panel_userptr(const PANEL *pan)\fR -.br -\fBint del_panel(PANEL *pan)\fR +\fBPANEL *ceiling_panel(SCREEN *\fIsp\fB);\fR .br .SH DESCRIPTION -Panels are \fBcurses\fR(3) windows with the added feature of -depth. Panel functions allow the use of stacked windows and ensure -the proper portions of each window and the curses \fBstdscr\fR window are +Panels are \fBcurses\fP(3) windows with the added feature of +depth. +Panel functions allow the use of stacked windows and ensure +the proper portions of each window and the curses \fBstdscr\fP window are hidden or displayed when panels are added, moved, modified or removed. -The set of currently visible panels is the stack of panels. The -\fBstdscr\fR window is beneath all panels, and is not considered part +The set of currently visible panels is the stack of panels. +The +\fBstdscr\fP window is beneath all panels, and is not considered part of the stack. .P -A window is associated with every panel. The panel routines enable +A window is associated with every panel. +The panel routines enable you to create, move, hide, and show panels, as well as position a panel at any desired location in the stack. .P -Panel routines are a functional layer added to \fBcurses\fR(3), make only +Panel routines are a functional layer added to \fBcurses\fP(3), make only high-level curses calls, and work anywhere terminfo curses does. .SH FUNCTIONS -.TP -.B new_panel(win) -allocates a \fBPANEL\fR structure, associates it with -\fBwin\fR, places the panel on the top of the stack (causes it -to be displayed above any other panel) and returns a +.\" --------- +.SS bottom_panel +\fBbottom_panel(\fIpan\fB)\fR +puts panel \fIpan\fP at the bottom of all panels. +.\" --------- +.SS ceiling_panel +\fBceiling_panel(\fIsp\fB)\fR +acts like \fBpanel_below(NULL)\fP, for the given \fBSCREEN\fP \fIsp\fP. +.\" --------- +.SS del_panel +\fBdel_panel(\fIpan\fB)\fR +removes the given panel \fIpan\fP from the stack and deallocates the +\fBPANEL\fP structure (but not its associated window). +.\" --------- +.SS ground_panel +\fBground_panel(\fIsp\fB)\fR +acts like \fBpanel_above(NULL)\fP, for the given \fBSCREEN\fP \fIsp\fP. +.\" --------- +.SS hide_panel +\fBhide_panel(\fIpan\fB)\fR +removes the given panel \fIpan\fP from the panel stack +and thus hides it from view. +The \fBPANEL\fP structure is not lost, merely removed from the stack. +.\" --------- +.SS move_panel +\fBmove_panel(\fIpan\fB,\fIstarty\fB,\fIstartx\fB)\fR +moves the given panel \fIpan\fP's window so that its upper-left corner is at +\fIstarty\fP, \fIstartx\fP. +It does not change the position of the panel in the stack. +Be sure to use this function, not \fBmvwin\fP(3), to move a panel window. +.\" --------- +.SS new_panel +\fBnew_panel(\fIwin\fB)\fR allocates a \fBPANEL\fR structure, +associates it with \fIwin\fP, places the panel on the top of the stack +(causes it to be displayed above any other panel) and returns a pointer to the new panel. -.TP -.B update_panels() -refreshes the virtual screen to reflect the relations between the -panels in the stack, but does not call doupdate() to refresh the -physical screen. Use this function and not wrefresh or wnoutrefresh. -update_panels() may be called more than once before a call to -doupdate(), but doupdate() is the function responsible for updating -the physical screen. -.TP -.B del_panel(pan) -removes the given panel from the stack and deallocates the -\fBPANEL\fR structure (but not its associated window). -.TP -.B hide_panel(pan) -removes the given panel from the panel stack and thus hides it from -view. The \fBPANEL\fR structure is not lost, merely removed from the stack. -.TP -.B panel_hidden(pan) -returns TRUE if the panel is in the panel stack, -FALSE if it is not. -If the panel is a null pointer, return ERR. -.TP -.B show_panel(pan) -makes a hidden panel visible by placing it on top of the panels in the -panel stack. See COMPATIBILITY below. -.TP -.B top_panel(pan) -puts the given visible panel on top of all panels in the stack. See -COMPATIBILITY below. -.TP -.B bottom_panel(pan) -puts panel at the bottom of all panels. -.TP -.B move_panel(pan,starty,startx) -moves the given panel window so that its upper-left corner is at -\fBstarty\fR, \fBstartx\fR. It does not change the position of the -panel in the stack. Be sure to use this function, not \fBmvwin()\fR, -to move a panel window. -.TP -.B replace_panel(pan,window) -replaces the current window of panel with \fBwindow\fR (useful, for -example if you want to resize a panel; if you're using \fBncurses\fR, -you can call \fBreplace_panel\fR on the output of \fBwresize\fR(3)). +.\" --------- +.SS panel_above +\fBpanel_above(\fIpan\fB)\fR +returns a pointer to the panel above \fIpan\fP. +If the panel argument is +\fB(PANEL *)0\fP, it returns a pointer to the bottom panel in the stack. +.\" --------- +.SS panel_below +\fBpanel_below(\fIpan\fB)\fR +returns a pointer to the panel just below \fIpan\fP. +If the panel argument +is \fB(PANEL *)0\fP, it returns a pointer to the top panel in the stack. +.\" --------- +.SS panel_hidden +\fBpanel_hidden(\fIpan\fB)\fR +returns \fBFALSE\fP if the panel \fIpan\fP is in the panel stack, +\fBTRUE\fP if it is not. +If the panel is a null pointer, return \fBERR\fP. +.\" --------- +.SS panel_userptr +\fBpanel_userptr(\fIpan\fB)\fR +returns the user pointer for a given panel \fIpan\fP. +.\" --------- +.SS panel_window +\fBpanel_window(\fIpan\fB)\fR +returns a pointer to the window of the given panel \fIpan\fP. +.\" --------- +.SS replace_panel +\fBreplace_panel(\fIpan\fB,\fIwindow\fB)\fR +replaces the current window of panel \fIpan\fP with \fIwindow\fP +This is useful, for example if you want to resize a panel. +In \fBncurses\fP, you can call \fBreplace_panel\fP +to resize a panel using a window resized with \fBwresize\fP(3). It does not change the position of the panel in the stack. -.TP -.B panel_above(pan) -returns a pointer to the panel above pan. If the panel argument is -\fB(PANEL *)0\fR, it returns a pointer to the bottom panel in the stack. -.TP -.B panel_below(pan) -returns a pointer to the panel just below pan. If the panel argument -is \fB(PANEL *)0\fR, it returns a pointer to the top panel in the stack. -.TP -.B set_panel_userptr(pan,ptr) +.\" --------- +.SS set_panel_userptr +\fBset_panel_userptr(\fIpan\fB,\fIptr\fB)\fR sets the panel's user pointer. -.TP -.B panel_userptr(pan) -returns the user pointer for a given panel. -.TP -.B panel_window(pan) -returns a pointer to the window of the given panel. +.\" --------- +.SS show_panel +\fBshow_panel(\fIpan\fB)\fR +makes a hidden panel visible by placing it on top of the panels in the +panel stack. +See \fBCOMPATIBILITY\fP below. +.\" --------- +.SS top_panel +\fBtop_panel(\fIpan\fB)\fR +puts the given visible panel \fIpan\fP on top of all panels in the stack. +See \fBCOMPATIBILITY\fP below. +.\" --------- +.SS update_panels +\fBupdate_panels()\fR +refreshes the \fIvirtual screen\fP to reflect the relations between the +panels in the stack, but does not call \fBdoupdate\fP(3) to refresh the +\fIphysical screen\fP. +Use this function and not \fBwrefresh\fP(3) or \fBwnoutrefresh\fP(3). +.PP +\fBupdate_panels\fP may be called more than once before a call to +\fBdoupdate\fP, but \fBdoupdate\fP is the function responsible for updating +the \fIphysical screen\fP. .SH DIAGNOSTICS -Each routine that returns a pointer returns \fBNULL\fR if an error -occurs. Each routine that returns an int value returns \fBOK\fR if it -executes successfully and \fBERR\fR if not. +Each routine that returns a pointer returns \fBNULL\fP if an error +occurs. +Each routine that returns an int value returns \fBOK\fP if it +executes successfully and \fBERR\fP if not. +.PP +Except as noted, the \fIpan\fP and \fIwindow\fP parameters must be non-null. +If those are null, an error is returned. +.PP +The \fBmove_panel\fP function uses \fBmvwin\fP(3), +and will return an error if \fBmvwin\fP returns an error. .SH COMPATIBILITY Reasonable care has been taken to ensure compatibility -with the native panel facility introduced in SVr3.2 (inspection of +with the native panel facility introduced in System V (inspection of the SVr4 manual pages suggests the programming interface is unchanged). -The \fBPANEL\fR data structures are merely similar. The programmer -is cautioned not to directly use \fBPANEL\fR fields. +The \fBPANEL\fP data structures are merely similar. +The programmer +is cautioned not to directly use \fBPANEL\fP fields. .P -The functions \fBshow_panel()\fR and \fBtop_panel()\fR are identical +The functions \fBshow_panel\fP and \fBtop_panel\fP are identical in this implementation, and work equally well with displayed or hidden -panels. In the native System V implementation, \fBshow_panel()\fR is +panels. +In the native System V implementation, \fBshow_panel\fP is intended for making a hidden panel visible (at the top of the stack) -and \fBtop_panel()\fR is intended for making an already-visible panel -move to the top of the stack. You are cautioned to use the correct +and \fBtop_panel\fP is intended for making an already-visible panel +move to the top of the stack. +You are cautioned to use the correct function to ensure compatibility with native panel libraries. .SH NOTE In your library list, libpanel.a should be before libncurses.a; that is, -you want to say `-lpanel -lncurses', not the other way around (which would -usually give a link-error). +you should say \*(``\-lpanel \-lncurses\*('', not the other way around +(which would give a link-error with static libraries). +.SH PORTABILITY +The panel facility was documented in SVr4.2 in +\fICharacter User Interface Programming (UNIX SVR4.2)\fP. +.PP +It is not part of X/Open Curses. +.PP +A few implementations exist: +.bP +Systems based on SVr4 source code, +e.g., Solaris, provide this library. +.bP +\fBncurses\fP (since version 0.6 in 1993) +and \fBPDCurses\fP (since version 2.2 in 1995) +provide a panel library whose common ancestor +was a public domain implementation by Warren Tucker +published in \fIu386mon\fP 2.20 (1990). +.IP +According to Tucker, the SystemV panel library +was first released in SVr3.2 (1988), +and his implementation helped with a port to SVr3.1 (1987). +.IP +Several developers have improved each of these; +they are no longer the same as Tucker's implementation. +.bP +NetBSD 8 (2018) +has a panel library begun by Valery Ushakov in 2015. +This is based on the AT&T documentation. .SH FILES -.P panel.h interface for the panels library .P libpanel.a the panels library itself .SH SEE ALSO -\fBcurses\fR(3) +\fBcurses\fP(3), +\fBcurs_variables\fP(3), .PP -This describes \fBncurses\fR -version 5.7. +This describes \fBncurses\fP +version 6.4 (patch 20230826). .SH AUTHOR Originally written by Warren Tucker <wht@n4hgf.mt-park.ga.us>, -primarily to assist in porting u386mon to systems without a native -panels library. Repackaged for ncurses by Zeyd ben-Halim. +primarily to assist in porting \fIu386mon\fP to systems without a native +panels library. +.PP +Repackaged for ncurses by Zeyd ben-Halim. +.PP +Juergen Pfeifer and Thomas E. Dickey revised/improved the library. |