Re: set_default_colors + text - transparency

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, David Woodfall wrote:

> 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.

no - you'd have to construct one.  I do that in several of the test 
programs.

> 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?

no - it would be nice to make the logic that combines background and 
window attributes modified to allow either to be "default" and let the 
other override.  What's implemented only checks if the given background or 
window attribute includes color.

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