On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ken wrote:

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-On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, James wrote:
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-> how do i get coloured text in ncurses? i've tried making a colour pair
-> and attron() and attrset() but the best i got was the following in
-> black on flashing white (the text was 'Hello!'):
-> 
-> 27462Hello!
-> 
-> (i can't remember what the numbers were, but there were some numbers).
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-Did you call start_color() and check it? 

i did... and it returned true (or whatever means 'yes! i can do colour'

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-Have a good read of the Linux Programmers Guide 0.4 if you haven't
-already. It has a very large section on ncurses. If you can't find
-try poking around in sunsite.unc.edu or one of it's mirrors. 

didn't know it existed! i'll have a look.

what i did keep forgetting was to call refresh()... "hey! where's my
text! oi!...." :)

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