Re: black & white

[folkert]

Hi Thobias,

> > For some reason certain terminal programs (line gnome terminal) swap
> > black and white. So if one uses the ncurses COLOR_BLACK for background
> > and COLOR_WHITE for foreground you get actually the reverse.
> > Unfortunately this behaviour is not consistent: COLOR_GREEN on
> > COLOR_BLACK does give exactly that. As you can imagine, combining these
> > colorpairs give less than ideal results (e.g. your program looking as if
> > it does not completely fill the background).
> > 
> > Is there a workaround for this problem?
> > I tried init_color(COLOR_BLACK, 0, 0, 0); init_color(COLOR_WHITE, 999,
> > 999, 999); but that did not help.
> 
> I don't know but maybe assume_default_colors(3X) can help you? In the NOTES
> section, the problem mentioned with `ded' sounds similar (but not identic I
> guess).

I tried these:

- use_default_colors()
- assume_default_colors(COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_BLACK)
- assume_default_colors(COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_WHITE)

but none helped.

Suddenly I had an epiphany: I should simply use color pair 0 in the
not-so-special-case!


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