Re: init_color() problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Simon Sasburg wrote:

> On 11/15/06, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > You could for instance design an alternate terminfo entry which tells
> > ncurses that the terminal does not support BOLD+color, and alter the
> > setaf/setab strings to use the BOLD attribute as part of their
> > computation.
>
> Ok, at the moment I have only a vague idea about what terminfo is and
> how it works, but if i understand correctly what you suggest is this:
> -modify the terminfo so ncurses thinks the terminal supports 16
> colors, but not bold, this will then cause COLORS to be 16 and make
> init_color() work for all 16 colors
> -modify setaf/setab strings to change the way ncurses will change the
> current color, namely, also setting the bold attr for colors >8
>
> Is that about right? Or did i misunderstand?

yes, that's right.  (Also see the ncv - no_color_video - flag, which is 
used by ncurses to detect if it should not try to combine BOLD+color).

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