Re: Frustration sets in .......

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:

> Arrgggg ... Ok, I have been trying to google and figure out HOW to use 256 
> colors with my project. So far, All I have gotten is frustrated. I have
> extended colors in Ncurses and in my xterm working, but have found no
> easy explanation on using 256 colors inside of a C program.
>
> Anyone got some simple C program examples, something along the lines
> of the attached perl program to do this with ?

The ncurses test program (test/ncurses.c) when built with ext-colors
does show extended colors - a long chart...

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