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+<H1 class="no-header">default_colors 3x 2023-08-19 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
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-<STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG>, <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> - use terminal's default col-
- ors
+ <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG>, <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> - use terminal's default
+ colors
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
- The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> and <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> functions are exten-
- sions to the curses library. They are used with terminals that support
- ISO 6429 color, or equivalent. These terminals allow the application
- to reset color to an unspecified default value (e.g., with SGR 39 or
- SGR 49).
+ The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> and <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> functions are
+ extensions to the curses library. They are used with terminals that
+ support ISO 6429 color, or equivalent. These terminals allow the
+ application to reset color to an unspecified default value (e.g., with
+ SGR 39 or SGR 49).
Applications that paint a colored background over the whole screen do
not take advantage of SGR 39 and SGR 49. Some applications are
text. For example, there are several implementations of the <STRONG>ls</STRONG> program
which use colors to denote different file types or permissions. These
"color ls" programs do not necessarily modify the background color,
- typically using only the <STRONG>setaf</STRONG> terminfo capability to set the fore-
- ground color. Full-screen applications that use default colors can
+ typically using only the <STRONG>setaf</STRONG> terminfo capability to set the
+ foreground color. Full-screen applications that use default colors can
achieve similar visual effects.
The first function, <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> tells the curses library to
default background and init_pair(x,-1,COLOR_BLUE) will initialize pair
x as default foreground on blue.
- The other, <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> is a refinement which tells which col-
- ors to paint for color pair 0. This function recognizes a special
+ The other, <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> is a refinement which tells which
+ colors to paint for color pair 0. This function recognizes a special
color number -1, which denotes the default terminal color.
The following are equivalent:
<EM>assume</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>default</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>colors(-1,-1);</EM>
These are ncurses extensions. For other curses implementations, color
- number -1 does not mean anything, just as for ncurses before a success-
- ful call of <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> or <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG>.
+ number -1 does not mean anything, just as for ncurses before a
+ successful call of <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> or <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG>.
Other curses implementations do not allow an application to modify
color pair 0. They assume that the background is COLOR_BLACK, but do
Associated with this extension, the <STRONG>init_pair</STRONG> function accepts negative
arguments to specify default foreground or background colors.
- The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to support <EM>ded</EM>. This is a
+ The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to support <STRONG>ded</STRONG>. This is a
full-screen application which uses curses to manage only part of the
screen. The bottom portion of the screen, which is of adjustable size,
is left uncolored to display the results from shell commands. The top
ls" programs. Attempting to manage the background color of the screen
for this application would give unsatisfactory results for a variety of
reasons. This extension was devised after noting that color xterm (and
- similar programs) provides a background color which does not necessar-
- ily correspond to any of the ANSI colors. While a special terminfo
- entry could be constructed using nine colors, there was no mechanism
- provided within curses to account for the related <STRONG>orig_pair</STRONG> and
- <STRONG>back_color_erase</STRONG> capabilities.
+ similar programs) provides a background color which does not
+ necessarily correspond to any of the ANSI colors. While a special
+ terminfo entry could be constructed using nine colors, there was no
+ mechanism provided within curses to account for the related <STRONG>orig_pair</STRONG>
+ and <STRONG>back_color_erase</STRONG> capabilities.
- The <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to solve a different prob-
- lem: support for applications which would use environment variables and
- other configuration to bypass curses' notion of the terminal's default
- colors, setting specific values.
+ The <STRONG>assume_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to solve a different
+ problem: support for applications which would use environment variables
+ and other configuration to bypass curses' notion of the terminal's
+ default colors, setting specific values.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_color.3x.html">curs_color(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ded(1)</STRONG>.
+ <STRONG>ded(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_color.3x.html">curs_color(3x)</A></STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-08-19 <STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG>
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