Re: lib/44109: curses does not support full colour

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/44109; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/44109: curses does not support full colour
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:28:10 +0000

 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:25:02PM +0000, Brett Lymn wrote:
  >  > Curses does not let you use arbitrary RGB colors. 
  >  
  >  man can_change_color
  >  man init_color
  >  
  >  say different.  Though looking at the curses source, init_color has
  >  not been implemented yet.
 
 Er woops, I forgot about that from the last time we talked about this.
 
 anyway it doesn't actually *work* :-/
 
  >  By default those colours are set up in curses but they are not the
  >  only ones that can be used.
 
 ...but they currently are.
 
 ok, the state is better than I thought it was... what can I do to help
 make it work?
 
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 David A. Holland
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