Re: set_default_colors + text - transparency

[David Woodfall]

On (18:55 30/05/06), Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, David Woodfall wrote:
> 
> >When I use set_default_colors() I get transparency in a terminal,
> >except that the bg color of text is still not transparent. Is there
> >some way of making text background transparent too?
> 
> You might be adding the text with a color-pair that has a non-default 
> background color.

Yes I am using some color-pairs but there doesn't seem to be a default
color-pair setting. I looked through ncurses.h but didn't find any clues
there. 

Is there some way to either set text bg as default, or another way to
change fg text color without having to specify a bg color?
 
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