ETI panels
Recall that a window is a rectangular area of the
terminal screen on which you can write using the low-level
ETI (curses) routines.
You can create many windows on a screen, but if they overlap,
portions of some windows intended to be hidden may
nonetheless be visible when you use the low-level routines alone.
To solve this problem, ETI uses the notion of a panel--a
rectangle of text with depth.
Panels have depth only in relation to other panels and stdscr,
which lies beneath all panels.
The set of non-hidden panels comprises the
``deck'' of panels.
Next topic:
Compiling and linking panel programs
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