attrset & color problem

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi,

after the switch from ncurses-5.9 to 6.0 I get some weird color
problems. 

After some experimentation I could connect that to the
attrset() function.

To set the text color (for- and background) I use 

        attrset (COLOR_PAIR(7) | A_BOLD);

as shown in the How-To and man page. That worked without problems in
5.9.

In ncurses-6 it looks as if the color setting is ignored. After the
instruction I still get the color which was set before. Using attron()
instead works.

If I add the following code before the attrset() line

        color_set(7); 

all is well.

I link against the ncursesw library in both cases and the generated
code for attrset() is nearly the same - a direct write of the
combined attribute (BOLD and color pair) to some memory location. So I
think it resolves to the same macro definition in ncurses.h.

Any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated.

        Thomas.

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