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Re: Manual entry for panel_hidden incorrect?


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Manual entry for panel_hidden incorrect?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:26:30 -0400

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 04:51:24PM +0100, Benjamin Mordaunt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reading the man page for ncurses in man/panel.3x and noticed the
> following:
> 
> panel_hidden(pan) returns TRUE if the panel pan is in the panel
>        stack, FALSE if it is not.  If the panel is a null pointer,
>        return ERR.
> 
> Surely that is backwards - if the panel is hidden, it should return
> TRUE if the panel is _not_ in the panel stack. In fact, looking at the
> implementation in ncurses, it looks like the code agrees with me.

agreed - my error (it seems that I documented this in 20070512, while
adding a feature to the test program).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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