Re: Color support in NCursesMenu::post()

[ncurses]

Hi all,

I have actually tried to implement this two years ago (2015-10-03), but it was 
not accepted...

Best regards,
Martin

On 20180101 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 05:24:19PM +0100, Federico Di Pierro wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I was wondering if color support for post() method is planned.
> > 
> > I see 2 way to achieve that:
> > 1) by hooking a callback, like:
> > virtual OnItemPrint(int currX, int currY, NCursesMenuItem &item),
> > that defaults to waddnstr().
> > 
> > Then everyone can override the method and add any attribute he wishes.
> > 
> > 2) By adding an attribute field to NCursesMenuItem, and parsing that field
> > in _nc_Post_Item before printing (eg: wattron(menu->win, item->attributes)).
> > 
> > Is there such a plan?
> 
> I haven't thought about it :-)
> 
> > Would a patch be considered and accepted?
> 
> sure (the usual constraints on portability and compatibility apply).
> 
> thanks
> 
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