*curses

Yendor wrote:
> ncurses won't work. so give that up.

ncurses work via cygwin, but pdcursese work better (and also without
czgwin

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:12:48 -0400, "pol" <pol RemoveThis @pol.net> tried to confuse
everyone with this message:

>I currently have my game in a windows console, and was thinking of switching
>over to curses.
>
>If I did this, could I use more than the 15 base colors?
>I am pretty sure I read somewhere about 256 colors with curses but I cant
>find what I was looking at.

There are 256 possible COLOR_PAIRs, i.e. background and foreground.
There are only 16 base colors.

>also, does anybody use curses and develop in windows?

Yes, PDCurses work on Windows very well.

>how do I install it? I tried following the faq's and installing pdCurses,
>and nCurses, but no luck.
>
>
>I am using Visual Studio 2003
>

I think there are precompiled libraries for Visual Studio (as there are
for MinGW and other compilers). Just edit the preferences of your
project so that it knows where to find the library.

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pol wrote:
> I currently have my game in a windows console, and was thinking of switching
> over to curses.
>
> If I did this, could I use more than the 15 base colors?
> I am pretty sure I read somewhere about 256 colors with curses but I cant
> find what I was looking at.
>
> also, does anybody use curses and develop in windows?
>
> how do I install it? I tried following the faq's and installing pdCurses,
> and nCurses, but no luck.
>
>
> I am using Visual Studio 2003
>
>
>
An alternative is to use libSDLcurses:

http://developer.berlios.de/cvs/?group_id=7205

that gives you the parts of the curses API needed for a roguelike, but
runs in a window managed by the SDL library http://www.libsdl.org

It depends on libSDL and SDL_ttf. No visual studio project is provided,
but it should be possible to simply add the source files to your
project. It's also portable, so can be used in windows and linux (and
MacOSx) versions of your project.

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Timofei Shatrov napisa³(a):

[...]

>
> There are 256 possible COLOR_PAIRs, i.e. background and foreground.
> There are only 16 base colors.
>

On Windows I see 64 color pairs and 8 colors. To get bright colors I use
bold attribute.

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