Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Color CURSES?
Message-ID: <7587@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 30 Mar 88 17:24:29 GMT
References: <4186@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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.