Hi. I'm doing a little terminal-based game project and I was considering using pdcurses to make it cross-plataform (initially it used borland's conio.h in windows, but I've moved to linux now...). Note: the project is linked to pdcurses in windows, but uses ncurses in linux.
In Linux, however, I recently discovered that it was quite easy to get a 256 configurable-color terminal, instead of the 8 color, non configurable-color terminal that most linux distributions are shipped with: $ export TERM="xterm-256color" So I wanted to know if there is any way I could get 256 colors in the windows terminal or some way to emulate it. I've tested the win32 and the SDL ports of pdcurses with a little test program that informs about the color capabilities and prints the different colors and in both cases the output is the same: 16 colors and can_change_color() == TRUE. I think this is reasonable with the win32 port, but I see no reason why the SDL port should have this values. Anyone knows if the win32 console API provides a way to get more than 16 simultaneous colors? And if that is the case, might it be possible to change the win32 pdcurses library, or the SDL one, in order to use that? (I have no problem to help with the code, I just want to know from a pdcurses developer, or someone who is familiar with the code, if this would be possible or not..). Well, this tourned to be a pretty long mail, sorry for that, and for my bad english as well =P Thanks! -- Demian Ferreiro
