Re: dfuife_curses and how to use it

[sam <samwun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:19:21 +0800
> sam <samwun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Oh, OK.  Yes, that could be affecting it.  See if you can change your
> TERM setting to something like "vt100-color" while using putty.
>
> It sounds like dfuife_curses is detecting that your terminal doesn't
> support colours, and is switching to "monochrome mode", which was never
> well tested (and as you point out, it doesn't highlight the focused
> widget properly.)  I'll work on making it more usable, if I can find
> some time in the next few days.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> That's really kind of bizarre.  What kind of monitor/video card is this?
Finally got this solved by removing the "set term=... " line in the 
. cshrc file.

Sam.

> -Chris