ETI panels

Deleting panels

The following function deletes a panel, but not its associated window. If you want to delete the window, you should use the low-level function delwin.

SYNOPSIS

   int del_panel (panel)
   PANEL panel;           /* Panel to be deleted */

The ETI panels subsystem assumes that the window associated with each panel always exists.

NOTE: If you want to delete a panel and its associated window, make sure that you delete the panel first, not the window. Your call to del_panel should precede your call to delwin.

However, it is not necessary to delete a window after its associated panel is deleted: if you like, you may associate the window with another panel.

Function del_panel returns OK if the operation was successful, ERR otherwise. The del_panel operation fails if the panel pointer is NULL.

To delete the panel referenced by panel and its associated window referenced by win, you can write

   PANEL *panel;
   WINDOW *win = panel_window(panel);
   
   del_panel(panel);
   delwin(win);