foreground/background colors

[Bob Rossi]

Hi All,

I search the mailing list and couldn't find exactly what I was
interested in. I was wondering if there was a way to determine what the
foreground and background colors of the terminal are, that an ncurses
application was started in.

I recently learned about use_default_colors() function and it is very
nice. However, I want a status bar (like vim), that displays the
opposite of the default color. So if the default is white on black, I
want a status bar that's black on white. And vice versa.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi