[ncurses-ruby] How to get more than 8 colors?

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Here is a copy of the question I entered on
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Ncurses-ruby:

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How are things with support for more than 8 colors in ncurses-ruby ?

I ran 'puts(Ncurses.COLORS.to_s + " " + Ncurses.can_change_color?.to_s)'
on a terminal that supports more than 8 and got “8 false”.

Does that mean I am restricted to 8 colors ?
#-v

Any ncurses experts here ?

Thx,
Simon

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Saluton!

I ran ‘puts(Ncurses.COLORS.to_s + " " + Ncurses.can_change_color?.to_s)’
on a terminal that supports more than 8 and got “8 false”.

You set a color to black, blue, brown, cyan, green, magenta, red, or
white. The rest is done by setting bold. For more information please
consult ‘man 4 console_codes’ or take a look at my ecma48sgr module
available at

http://members.lycos.nl/linux/soft/ruby/ecma48svgr-module.html

I would have preferred to send this off-topic using private mail but
‘deliriousNOSPAM@atchoo.be’ looks too non-existent to me. It is no
problem if you make an address invalid but please

  • clearly state if you did and
  • tell what to do to make address valid again.

I don’t want to have to do wild guesses…

Gis,

Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt

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http://members.lycos.nl/linux/soft/ruby/ecma48svgr-module.html

I get a 404 on this URL.

I would have preferred to send this off-topic using private mail but
‘deliriousNOSPAM@atchoo.be’ looks too non-existent to me. It is no
problem if you make an address invalid but please

  • clearly state if you did and
  • tell what to do to make address valid again.

Will do. Thank you for pointing that out.

Got a little carried away by my inability to reproduce all colors used
by ‘mutt’ which is why I was assuming my terminal was using more than 8
colors. I found what I was looking for; thank you for your explanation
and my apologies for this off-topic post.

Simon

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 at 16:20 GMT, Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt wrote:

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Saluton!

http://members.lycos.nl/linux/soft/ruby/ecma48svgr-module.html

I get a 404 on this URL.

That should read

http://members.lycos.nl/jupp/linux/soft/ruby/ecma48sgr-module.html

Anyway, the file is very tiny. Attached to this message. It is just
some hashes…

Gis,

Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt

ecma48sgr.rb.txt (3.59 KB)

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