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Average Joe

2005-01-28, 8:57 am

Users have different background colors in their xterm. How can my
ncurses program determine the background color so that I can set my
color_pairs to have the users default background?

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Average Joe
Thomas Dickey

2005-01-28, 8:58 pm

Average Joe <joe@use.net> wrote:
> Users have different background colors in their xterm. How can my
> ncurses program determine the background color so that I can set my
> color_pairs to have the users default background?


You cannot determine it - but you can call use_default_colors() and
use the related extension for init_pair(), e.g., set the color to -1.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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Average Joe

2005-01-29, 8:56 pm

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Average Joe <joe@use.net> wrote:
>
>
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> You cannot determine it - but you can call use_default_colors() and
> use the related extension for init_pair(), e.g., set the color to -1.


Thanks, that works great.

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Average Joe
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