Re: dfuife_curses and how to use it

[sam <samwun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:46:54 +0800
> sam <samwun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Chris Pressey wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:54:48 +0800
> > > sam <samwun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
>
> > [...]
> > Hi, I found another problem when running dfuife_curses. When pressing 
> > down the arrow keys of the keypads, I don't see the colour of the
> > cursor  contrast with the froground colour, so the background colour
> > of the text  is unchange when the cursor moving over the text. How can
> > I change the  setting of background colour of the cursor?
>
>
> I don't understand what you mean exactly.  The widget with the current
> 'focus' should be highlighted (white on blue), while other widgets
> should be the same colours as the rest of the dialog box (black on
> grey.) 
The entire widget (including Welcome text and the buttons) and its 
subsequent widgets are white on black regardless whether the cursor have 
moved to the text button or not.

 In the case of textboxes, only the edges of the widget are
> highlighted, and a cursor appears at the text insertion point between
> them.  This cursor is handled by curses itself, so I don't think you
> have much control over its appearance.  

What I meant is when the cursor moved to the textbox (eg. Install 
DragonFly BSD), I don't see the colour of the textbox and its edge is 
changed to the colour that different to the background colour (black).
All text/textboxes are stay the same colour regardless whether the 
cursor is moved onto it, and the background colour of the textbox is 
always in black.

From reading thru the intruduction manual of ncurss, I found that I may 
be use different type of terminal. I execute dfui* thru putty. I also 
tried to run the dfui* directly in the monitor (a LCD monitor) that 
attached to the BSD machine, but the edge of the widge becomes 999999999 
and there is no colour.

What can I changed in the dfuife files for fixing this kind of problem 
with ncurse?

Thanks
Sam

The highlighting and dialog box
> colours can be changed by changing some constants in dfuife_curses.
>
> -Chris