Re: Help needed to fix QTerminal problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/08/2013 05:20 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> A Win32 console application can make use of only 16 colors. And an
> application does not request a specific color, but request an index in
> the color table. You can apply any color mapping you want, but an
> application will expect that the color mapping corresponds to something
> usable: for instance, it can request a darkBlue background and a
> lightGray foreground, but if you use a mapping where both are red, you
> won't see anything.
>
> For octave, you can tune QTerminalColors.cpp to whatever you like,
> octave itself only makes use of 2 colors anyway.

What about another approach?  Does QTerminal for windows expect that it 
is running cmd.exe, or can that be any command interpreter?

If only cmd.exe, then would it work to leave the color mappings alone 
and start it with the option "/tF0"?

jwe