Re: A suggestion for color handling on modern terminals

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:51:51AM +1000, Tim Allen wrote:
> My suggestion is this: When ncurses initialises itself, queries terminfo 
> and discovers that it's running on a Tektronix-like terminal (presumably, 
> one that defines setaf/setab), it should recognise that "pairs" in the 
> terminfo database is a lie, and set COLOR_PAIRS to  (colors+1) squared 
> rather than the contents of "pairs". Perhaps it should cap the new value to 
> INT_MAX, just to be on the safe side.

That would make yet another binary-incompatible interface.  The extended
colors model can store 8-bit color codes - needs 16 bits plus a bit or
so to implement default colors.

It's probably doable, but keep in mind that ncurses also makes a table
of the color pairs, which would get correspondingly larger.

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