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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Should we use CODE Tags for terminal input and output? Post 302909605 by Corona688 on Thursday 17th of July 2014 07:02:19 PM
Old 07-17-2014
Yes, use them for terminal input and output as well.

It's better than setting random colors and fonts, or labelling them with
----------------output starts here-------------------------
...or letting people guess where it begins and ends.
 

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NCURSES_COLOR_SET(3)							 1						      NCURSES_COLOR_SET(3)

ncurses_color_set - Set active foreground and background colors

SYNOPSIS
int ncurses_color_set (int $pair) DESCRIPTION
Sets the active foreground and background colors. Any characters written after this function is invoked will have these colors. This func- tion requires terminal colors to be supported and initialized using ncurses_start_color(3) beforehand. ncurses uses color pairs to specify both foreground and background colors. Use ncurses_init_pair(3) to define a color pair. PARAMETERS
o $pair - The color pair from which to get the foreground and background colors to set as the active colors. RETURN VALUES
Returns -1 on success, and 0 on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Writing a string with a specified color to the screen <?php ncurses_init(); // If the terminal supports colors, initialize and set active color if (ncurses_has_colors()) { ncurses_start_color(); ncurses_init_pair(1, NCURSES_COLOR_YELLOW, NCURSES_COLOR_BLUE); ncurses_color_set(1); } // Write a string at specified location ncurses_mvaddstr(10, 10, "Hello world! Yellow on blue text!"); // Flush output to screen ncurses_refresh(); ncurses_end(); ?> SEE ALSO
ncurses_init_pair(3), ncurses_start_color(3). PHP Documentation Group NCURSES_COLOR_SET(3)
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