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Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

update_panels — update terminal display

LIBRARY

library “libpanel”

SYNOPSIS

#include <panel.h>
void
update_panels(void);

DESCRIPTION

The update_panels() function performs the internal processing required by the panel library to determine what changes need to be made to synchronise the curses internal screen buffer and the terminal but does not modify the terminal display.
This function will internally perform the required calls to touchoverlap(3) and wnoutrefresh(3) in the correct order. You should never directly call curses functions like wnoutrefresh(3) on panel windows yourself. Remember, that stdscr is below all panels and any changes to it also require calling update_panels().
Finally, call the curses function doupdate(3) to update the terminal display.

SEE ALSO

doupdate(3), panel(3)
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