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Re: textcolor() for cygwin?
- From: "Hans" <hansydelm at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:26:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: textcolor() for cygwin?
- References: <b8mi5n$qom$1@main.gmane.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304301349481.23693-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Thanks Ronald,
It works great!
Hans.
#include <ncurses.h>
int main(void)
{
initscr(); // init ncurses
start_color(); // Init color mode
init_pair(1, COLOR_RED, COLOR_BLACK);
attron(COLOR_PAIR(1));
printw("Colour red");
refresh();
attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1));
endwin();
}
"Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <ronald@landheer.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0304301349481.23693-100000@localhost.localdomain...
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Hans wrote:
> > This must be a simple question but for some reason my google search
> > turned up nothing useful. I would like to change the textcolor using C,
> > is there any simple way of doing this? I don't need screen control or
> > anything fancy, just change some text strings to red,
> Actually, changing the color of a displayed text is pretty fancy, if you
> ask me! How are you going to change the color on a B/W terminal? How are
> you going to know your terminal is B/W if you don't want to do something
> in the least bit fancy?
>
> Anyway, try using curs_color(3X) from ncurses - that should help and does
> most of the fancy stuff for you :)
>
> HTH
>
> rlc
>
> BTW: ncurses is in the Cygwin net distri, before anyone asks..
>
>
>
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