Re: color_set(0, NULL);

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, george wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a guide for ncurses and I run into this 'bug':
>
> I expected that color_set(0,NULL); would change the
> colors back to normal (white fg, black bg) but I prooved wrong.
>
> Here are the facts:
>
> short f,b;
> pair_content(0,&f,&b);
> correctly prints f=7 and b=0
>
> int i;
> init_pair(1,COLOR_RED,COLOR_BLACK);
> color_set(1,NULL);
> printw("RED\n");
> i=color_set(0,NULL);
> printw("WHITE\n);
>
> well RED is red but WHITE is red too
> while i is OK (return value)
>
> Of course this is not a major bug since I can make a new pair
> for COLOR_WHITE,COLOR_BLACK and use this new pair number, but
> shouldnt the zero pair work ?

offhand it looks like a bug (will look closer).

> Also, I wonder if I can find the archive of this list somewhere?

see http://mail.gnu.org

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