Colors in a file generated with putwin(3c)

[John S. Urban]

QUESTION:

Files generated with putwin(3c) do not appear to contain information to reproduce the color pairs that were in use when the putwin(3c) call was made. Is that correct?

 

BACKGROUND:

I made a routine to print pads or windows as pre-formatted HTML. It works quite well for my purposes when called directly from an ncurses(3c) application.  Well enough that others are interested in using it with their applications. To make a long story short (my programs are in Fortran, theirs are in C and

Python for starters) I thought I would make a small application that read a putwin(3c) file  (thus having a way to generate screen-shots that was language-independent and already part of the ncurses(3c) library) and convert that to HTML.  It works well enough for everything but color for those currently interested in it.  Am I doing something wrong or is there no

Color pair information in the dump files?   If not, is that a feature or a bug?

 

PS:

I’m well aware Fortran is generally considered a niche language, so I am not expecting any support in that regard.  However,

If anyone is interested in the code, it is the ncp.f90 program, which calls nc_printhtml.f90; which interfaces to ncurses(3c) thru ncurses.f90, as described at

http://home.comcast.net/~urbanjost/LIBRARY/libscreen/ncurses/pdsrc/ncurses_from_Fortran.html

The interface described there is all public domain; but the applications are not and are not available for transmittal.

 

Alternatively, does anyone know of a  routine similar to nc_printhtml.f90 that is available in C/C++ or Python?  

If not, then I suppose I can rewite nc_printhtml.f90 in some other languages; but unlike a good part of the world almost

Everything I do is Fortran; and I don’t want to re-invent the wheel if something similar already exists ( I did try a few search engines, and found no “curses-to-html” utilities. I am NOT interested in anything that converts to pixmaps as an alternative.

I am specifically interested in generating HTML).

 

Thanks;

J. S. Urban