X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fdefault_colors.3x.html;h=b4db8a5e58b89f34b00fc7d93653d9ed172ce00a;hp=019624cb6c3e625b444bf9e95912a7c3c5d181ae;hb=55ccd2b959766810cf7db8d1c4462f338ce0afc8;hpb=a8987e73ec254703634802b4f7ee30d3a485524d diff --git a/doc/html/man/default_colors.3x.html b/doc/html/man/default_colors.3x.html index 019624cb..b4db8a5e 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/default_colors.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/default_colors.3x.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ 
 
-default_colors(3x)                             default_colors(3x)
+default_colors(3x)                                   default_colors(3x)
 
 
 
@@ -125,12 +125,35 @@
        accepts negative arguments to specify  default  foreground
        or background colors.
 
+       The  use_default_colors()  function  was  added to support
+       ded.  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 por-
+       tion of the screen colors filenames using  a  scheme  like
+       the  "color  ls" programs.  Attempting to manage the back-
+       ground 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 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 orig_pair and back_color_erase
+       capabilities.
+
+       The assume_default_colors() 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.
+

PORTABILITY

-       These  routines  are  specific  to ncurses.  They were not
-       supported on Version 7, BSD or System  V  implementations.
-       It  is recommended that any code depending on them be con-
+       These routines are specific to  ncurses.   They  were  not
+       supported  on  Version 7, BSD or System V implementations.
+       It is recommended that any code depending on them be  con-
        ditioned using NCURSES_VERSION.
 
 
@@ -141,12 +164,12 @@

AUTHOR

-       Thomas Dickey (from an analysis of  the  requirements  for
+       Thomas  Dickey  (from  an analysis of the requirements for
        color xterm for XFree86 3.1.2C, February 1996).
 
 
 
-                                               default_colors(3x)
+                                                     default_colors(3x)