Re: Issue using more than 256 Colors in ncurses version 6.0.20170401

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:21:10PM -0700, Darby Payne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apologizes if this is the wrong place to submit bug reports. I have seen an

It is the bug-ncurses list :-)

> issue with version 6.0.20170401 of ncurses where using more than 256 color
> pairs no longer seems to work with the macro COLOR_PAIR.
> 
> The specific line of code I was using to init the colors was
> 
>     init_pair(color, color, color);
> 
> Then to set the color
> 
>    attron(COLOR_PAIR(x));

thanks - I'll take a look to see.
 
> However when using more than 256 color pairs COLOR_PAIR no longer works
> correctly. If I use a custom macro instead of COLOR_PAIR it seems to work.
> So for example
> 
>     #define MY_A_COLOR NCURSES_BITS(((1U) << 16) - 1U, 0)
>     #define MY_COLOR_PAIR(n) (NCURSES_BITS((n), 0) & MY_A_COLOR)
> 
> The change here is MY_A_COLOR uses a 16 bit shift instead of an 8 bit
> shift. I know that there was a change to support colors and colors pairs
> great than 16 bits, but in this case I am only using 512 pairs.

agreed - there shouldn't be any documented/user-visible change.

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