Nope.

can_change_color() tells you whether the terminal can change its color setup. There is a different function called has_colors() that tells you whether the terminal can display colors at all.

I can produce colors on my terminal with the Curses module just fine. I can double the number of available foreground colors by using "BOLD". And I can establish a library of up to 64 color pairs (foreground/background) to refer to as I wish.

What "can_change_color() == 0" tells me is that I cannot use the init_color(...) function to build a custom color beyond the eight that are initially available.

I can get multiple foreground colors on any of eight predetermined background colors on the same screen. But I cannot achieve two foreground colors on true white on the same screen.

Regarding "I suppose there are still uses..." There are indeed. I am building a new UI for a server admin tool that has out-grown its command line interface. Since this tool will only be used via SSH, I am implementing this as a character-based full-window design. The kind of interactive responsiveness we desire makes a CGI solution impractical.

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In reply to Re: Re: Color on TrueWhite in Curses - Redux by dvergin
in thread Color on TrueWhite in Curses - Redux by dvergin

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