Jeffrey_J_Vanepps@cup.portal.com (03/29/88)
[] Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo) that will support different colors and different video modes? What I'm looking for is something that will allow me to say "this word in green, this one in red, this one highlighted, this one blinking, etc." all on the same screen. ANY help appreciated, but the actual software I need needs to be portable (i.e. NO hardcoded escape sequences!). advTHANXance sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Jeffrey_J_Vanepps
jgy@hropus.UUCP (John Young) (03/30/88)
> Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo) > that will support different colors and different video modes? What I'm > looking for is something that will allow me to say "this word in green, > this one in red, this one highlighted, this one blinking, etc." all on > the same screen. > > ANY help appreciated, but the actual software I need needs to be portable > (i.e. NO hardcoded escape sequences!). > > advTHANXance > > sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Jeffrey_J_Vanepps The curses/terminfo package shipped with UNIX SVR3.1 on the AT&T 6386WGS supports setting of colors (attrset etc....) and also definition of a colors' r,g,b values if this is supported in the hardware.
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (03/31/88)
In article <4186@cup.portal.com> Jeffrey_J_Vanepps@cup.portal.com writes: >Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo) >that will support different colors and different video modes? What I'm >looking for is something that will allow me to say "this word in green, >this one in red, this one highlighted, this one blinking, etc." all on >the same screen. Curses is dependent on terminal attributes described in the termcap or terminfo data base, and as of 4.3BSD and SVR3.0, neither provides a (standard) way to specify colors. Both provide for describing modes such as reverse-video, bold, blink, underscore, dim, invisible, and protected. See the appropriate manual entry. It sounds like you really need a forms interface, not curses.
Jeffrey_J_Vanepps@cup.portal.com (04/04/88)
>> Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo) >> that will support different colors and different video modes? > The curses/terminfo package shipped with UNIX SVR3.1 on the AT&T 6386WGS > supports setting of colors (attrset etc....) and also definition > of a colors' r,g,b values if this is supported in the hardware. Sounds good, but is source to the curses library available so that I can use it on different machines?
twh@mibte.UUCP (Tim Hitchcock) (04/06/88)
In article <7587@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP writes: > In article <4186@cup.portal.com> Jeffrey_J_Vanepps@cup.portal.com writes: > >Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo) > >that will support different colors and different video modes? What I'm > >looking for is something that will allow me to say "this word in green, > >this one in red, this one highlighted, this one blinking, etc." all on > >the same screen. > > Curses is dependent on terminal attributes described in the termcap > or terminfo data base, and as of 4.3BSD and SVR3.0, neither provides > a (standard) way to specify colors. Both provide for describing > modes such as reverse-video, bold, blink, underscore, dim, invisible, > and protected. See the appropriate manual entry. > > It sounds like you really need a forms interface, not curses. COLOR CURSES is supported in SVR3.2 terminfo. There will be a version for SVR3.1 too. ANSI has a standard for COLOR ANSI terminals. example of terminfo shell level use (COLOR/NUMBER definitions may not be exact): tput setf 1 # set foreground color to red tput setb 2 # set background color to blue tput setb 5 # set background color to yellow Note that COLORs are represented by numbers, not names.
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (04/07/88)
In article <2565@mibte.UUCP> twh@mibte.UUCP (Tim Hitchcock) writes: >COLOR CURSES is supported in SVR3.2 terminfo. There will be a version >for SVR3.1 too. ANSI has a standard for COLOR ANSI terminals. Great -- somebody please send me the latest TERMINFO spec so I can update the corresponding TERMCAP spec. Thanks!