color in subwindows

[D. Stimits]

I'm trying to use wbkgd(), with a different wbkgd() in different 
subwindows, recursively. These are also inside of a panel. So I might 
have a panel with a subwindow that has a border, and a useful subwindow 
inside of the border; this in turn might have a temporary "pop up" style 
subwindow inside of it, and I want to set wbkgd() separately for each 
subwindow. Unfortunately, I seem to be doing something wrong, and the 
final wbkgd() (although called for the specific subwindow and not for 
the parent window) seems to be the color that results for all windows up 
to the parent. I wanted to verify that ncurses should be able to set 
(separately) the background properties of each subwindow within a 
parent, recursively. Should I be able to set colors up like this 
(therefore my code is in error), or am I simply finding a restriction?

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com