david@varian.UUCP (David Brown) (05/24/89)
I'm looking for some assistance in programming a DEC vt340 color
graphics terminal to do color text, perferably via curses and
terminfo (sVr3.1 and sVr3.2 on AT&T 3b2 and 6386). There are
some hooks for color in curses and terminfo on both 3.1 and 3.2
on the 6386 and on 3.2 on the 3b2, but unfortunately only a
limited range of terminal types are supported - the 6386 color
monitor and a few terminals that I've never heard of.
I've gone through the vt340 manual (which I've decided is one
of the worse manuals I've come across in a long time) and can't
find any simple way to set some color attributes for text -
I've found some REGIS (graphics mode) commands which set up
the color map, and even if I figure these out, I'm still not
sure how to invoke color for a given text. I've tried the
usual ANSI sequences that work on PC-type monitors (e.g. ESC [ N m,
where is N is 30-something for foreground and 40-something for
background, but these do nothing.
Surely someone out there must be using vt340's for similar applications.
A terminfo description would be the ideal, but any sort of example
(e.g. a VMS .COM file), hints, pointers to additional references,
would be much appreciated.
The vt340 is supposed to be upwards-compatible from the vt241, so
any examples for that terminal should do as well.
Thanks in advance
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David Brown 415-649-4000
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