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  3. October 2004

Re: color attribute problem

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, phil wrote:

If you guys don't see anything weird pehaps you could help me with the source code.

1. Does tn5250 use ncurses "out of the box"?

tn5250 uses whatever curses you have installed. If that is ncurses, then that is what is used.

2.  Does it use ncurses exactly the same in console mode
    or under xterm?


I don't think so (see below).

  ASIDE:  if so, why is it that under xterm, an underlined field
           is underlined.  in console mode, only the portion which
            has not been entered is underlined.  It seems something
               graphical is going on here, unless ncurses is smart
                enough to know its on X.

The console does not have such a thing as underlines - only underscores (maybe the other way around). IIRC the problem is with the console's inability to display all the features we need.

4.  Where in the source would i look for attributes from AS400 are
    parsed and where they affect curses attributes.


In cursesterm.c look at curses_terminal_update()

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