ITEM: Y3197L

curses program compiled alters window colors on exit

Question:

curses program compiled alters window colors on exit

Response:

DESC: Customer has found that the curses programs that he compiles in
AIX 4.1 will, upon exit, cause his window colors to go to black
background and green foreground.

Response:

The following is from a PMR: -ALVAREZ, ABRAHAM      -576539300  -L165/-------P3S3-95/07/14-16:05--AT
In 4.1.2 libcurses is mostly a port form AT&T and the code contains
code that, on exit, restores the screen to the colors defined on
the specific terminfo file for the op ( orig_pair ). For the aixterm,
this value is defined under the cdef section.  The default value of op
is \\E[32m\\E[40m. - aixterm actually has a 'use cdef' statement.

In addition:
From AIX 4.1 /usr/lib/terminfo/ibm.ti file see.
\#color definitions added according to HP method. But they are hard coded
\#pairs. If the user wants to change a pair, then he has to change the escape
\#sequences of one of the following pairs. If he wants to add an extra pair then
\#he has to change the "pairs" variable to the new value. The original pair is
\#the default green foreground with black background.
\# The color pairs below are as explained in the following notation
\# (n)fg/bg  where "n" is the pair number, fg =foreground color,
\# and bg = background color.

 I also explained that he could make custom aixterms
and change the definitions.  One could do this with:

blterm|Blue aixterm definition
        op=\\E[37\\E[41, use=aixterm,

NEXT:  close



Support Line: curses program compiled alters window colors on exit ITEM: Y3197L

Dated: August 1995 Category: N/A

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