On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:24:30PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:32:29PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> >> syscons is already capable of changing forground and background colors
> >> via escape sequences. Is it not sufficient for your intended
> >> application?
> >>
> >> Kazu
> >>
> >
> >Since I received the same question in private mail more than once,
> >I guess I'll have to clarify. What I'm after is not exactly color
> >changes, but *palette* changes - changing the RGB/HLS components
> >of an existing color index, in order to display a new color.
> >
> >I'm writing a full-screen interactive console application (and yes,
> >it has to be a console app for many reasons). One of the design
> >requirements is a customizable palette, so users can have some say
> >about what they'll be staring at for hours day after day :)
>
> In that case, have you looked at ioctls defined in /usr/include/sys/fbio.h:
> FBIO_GETPALETTE and FBIO_SETPALETTE?
>
> Kazu
Yes, I have, and I'm considering reusing that code, or possibly calling
it. However, I still wonder why there isn't an escape sequence interface -
kinda hard to specify ioctl's in termcap(5) :)
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