Re: colors (was: Re: LYNX-DEV am I too late?)

[T.E.Dickey]

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> Ok, but that doesn't answer my question. As a ballpark figure, generally 
> how large is a small program linked with, say, ncurses (since these 
> people will be most interested in this anyways). 50K? 100K? 200K? 
> I know that minicom, stripped & linked with ncurses is ~80KB... and 
> there's a LOT of code. So, I figure that something that toys with the 
> colors and slurps in and spits out a config file should be << 50KB. 
ok (after I replied, it did occur to me that I was answering the wrong
question ;-)
  
But for small programs (statically linked), the libraries will tend to
dominate - your ~80k looks like it's linked against a shared library.
(I usually statically link - so minicom is bigger).

> I don't want to do this in perl because all the windoing libs I saw 
> (and I did look) did NOT use ncurses that I could see. Most were 
> functional (but crude) clones of ncurses... and that's NOT what we 
> want here... because we want the colors picked in that program to 
> be the SAME when lynx boots up... ie. create colors with the same 
> engine that will use them. My thinking... could be wrong. 
It'd be nice (but hard to achieve) to make the setup-program use the
code from Lynx (such as LYReadCfg.c) to guarantee that.
  
> I'll give it a go over the next week... don't hold breaths :-) 
>  
> Take care. 


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