Re: ncurses background color

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_saltmine.radix.net)
Date: 01/29/05

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    Average Joe <joe@use.net> wrote:
    > Users have different background colors in their xterm. How can my
    > ncurses program determine the background color so that I can set my
    > color_pairs to have the users default background?

    You cannot determine it - but you can call use_default_colors() and
    use the related extension for init_pair(), e.g., set the color to -1. 

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Thomas E. Dickey
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