Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:32:29 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: escape sequence for 'Ic' terminal capability Message-ID: <200101090832.RAA08905@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:05:01 %2B0200." <20010109100501.C2550@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <20010109100501.C2550@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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syscons is already capable of changing forground and background colors via escape sequences. Is it not sufficient for your intended application? Kazu >Hi, > >I'm thinking of messing with the syscons ioctl handler to allow setting >of color values - all EGA- and VGA-compatible video controllers allow this. >The idea is to later define my termcap(5) entry to let ncurses deal with >color setting. > >termcap(5) lists the 'cc' - 'can change color' and 'Ic' - 'initialize color' >capabilities. Setting the boolean 'cc' is easy, 'Ic' however presents a bit >of a problem to me - does anyone know what it is set to on any other terms >so I can keep a bit of compatibility here, or do I just randomly pick an esc >sequence, and lead on a happy existence until someone else defines this same >esc sequence to do something else? :) > >G'luck, >Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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