Hacking built in colors ?

[Patrick]

Hi Everyone

I am trying a weird experiment this morning.

I was thinking that it might be nice to be able to set COLOR_BLACK to
navy blue or charcoal grey or something like that. I could put an if
statement around the code and if COLORS is not 256, nothing would happen
and the regular black would show.

I can't get this to work. I just modified a little sample here.
COLOR_YELOW does not change with init_color.

Is it possible to do this another way? or is this idea just pure insanity :)

Thanks-Patrick



#include <ncurses.h>

int main(void)
{
    initscr();
    start_color();

    init_color(COLOR_YELLOW, 1,100,1) ;
    init_pair(1,COLOR_RED,COLOR_YELLOW);
    color_set(1,NULL);
    addstr("The color of this window is now\n");
    addstr("Red on Yellow.\n");
    refresh();
    getch();

    endwin();
    return 0;
}