From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Color functions missing from PDcurses
Date: 9 Feb 2003 16:29:16 GMT
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Jason Kircher <cdrradar AT hold DOT odiferous DOT titilating DOT mail DOT com> wrote:
> When I tried to port a curses app from Linux, it complained about not 
> seeing _wcolor_set.  Based on the curs_attr man page, it's a standard 
> function across XSI Curses Standard v4.  Am I missing something, or is 
> PDcurses broke in this regard?

PDcurses doesn't implement X/Open curses - it implements SVr3 rather than SVr4.

> Which leaves the question, without wcolor_set() (and it's macro 
> color_set() ), how do you do color?

probably by reading PDCurses' header file and seeing what it supports.

> The project in question is at sourceforge.net called abcp.  Compiles and 
> runs fine under Linux.

lots of linux code is written without consideration for portability
(the same can be said for most software).

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