CDK Color Support

[Aarian P. Aleahmad]

Hi there

As we know, ncurses can support up to 256 colors and 256 color pairs. 
While in the CDK, using initCDKColor function we have 64 color pairs 
made from the first 8 default colors. I tried to cheat the CDK and 
improve the color support by initializing color pairs using the ncurses 
functions themselves. It worked fine until 100 colors but after that I 
found a bug. The point was that "encodeAttribute" function, located in 
"cdk.c", only processes two digits, so a 3-digit pair code, say "</123>" 
will be treated equal to "</12>". I tried to fix this and improve CDK's 
color support to the maximum 256 possible color pairs by adding the 
following code to "cdk.h", Line#339:

339:   else if (isdigit (CharOf (string[from + 1])) &&
340:        isdigit (CharOf (string[from + 2])) &&
341:        isdigit (CharOf (string[from + 3])))
342:   {
343:#ifdef HAVE_START_COLOR
344:      pair = DigitOf (string[from + 1]) * 100 + DigitOf 
(string[from + 2]) * 10 + DigitOf (string[from + 3]);
345:      *mask = (chtype)COLOR_PAIR ( (pair>255) ? 255 : pair );
346:#else
347:      *mask = A_BOLD;
348:#endif
349:      from += 3;
350:   }

But after I compiled the new code and installed it, the bug still 
existed. I was running this code:


for (i = j = 0; i < 256; ++i) {
                /*Calculates the Foreground Color Code*/
                d= (0xf8)|((~(i&0x07))&0x07);
                if( !(d&0x07) && (i<128) )
                        d|=0x07;

                /*Initializes the Color Pair*/
                init_pair(i, d, i);

                /*Makes the label*/
                sprintf(msg,"</%d>%3d  <!%d>",i,i,i);
                j=CDKallocStrings(&l,msg,i,j);
                
activateCDKLabel(newCDKLabel(scr,i/24*7,i%24,l+i,1,FALSE,FALSE),NULL);

I attached a screeshot of what I expect and what I recieved. The former 
was made through "mvprintw" function of the ncurses itself.

I would thank anyone who could help me on this issue.
Thank you

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