Re: Help needed to fix QTerminal problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/08/2013 04:10 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 03:09 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 04/08/2013 02:53 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> > > Did you try to invert the colors
> > > in libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/win32/QTerminalColors.cpp instead?
> >
> > No, I'll try that. But even before my changes, the background color
> > appeared to be set unconditionally to Qt::Black:
> >
> > http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/eeedbc7c0740
> >
> > Is there a way to ask for the background color from the hidden terminal?
> > Or should I just set it to white unconditionally?
>
> With the attached changes from your original code, I get a white
> background and the reverse video that is used by things like the less
> status message is correct. But instead of black for the font, I'm
> seeing gray. I guess that's because the hidden terminal is using gray
> as the foreground color, not white. What's the best way to change
> that?

Hmm, I see that without any of the changes that I applied, something like

  system ("color F0")

should change the background to white and the foreground to black.

Are we really limited to reflecting the color of the Windows terminal 
colors exactly in the QTerminal widget, with only 16 colors to choose from?

jwe