Thread: Curses.h - Question

Hi

I am going to be using the curses library, text based graphics for an upcoming project. I downloaded the library since it didnt come packaged with the distro. I am able to run certain programs, but when I get a program with colours, I get an error and it wont exectue. 'Error - no color support on this terminal'

Is there any way to fix this?

I am using KDE, and I even tried different shell windows available like XTerm and others, and still got the same error.

Thanks

Will I try this on the command line before I execute the code?
And once that line is executed, and it works, will I ever have to execute that statement again?

Thanks

I checked the env table, and TERM was already set on xterm, I exported it and tried to execute the code, but it still will not execute the code.

Also dtterm does not exist.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

//Edit, the code will not execute from my machine, However I loaded it on the school server and when I execute it from there in the same console I tried before it executes!!!!!!!

Well if anyone else comes across this they now know the answer.

When a shell windows is open. File > Linux Console.

The colours will then work.

Actually it's TERM=xterm-color. this only applies to the terminal you type it into.
I think you can put it in .xinitrc though.

If you want to avoid this problem on any terminal, you should make use of terminfo, so you don't try to access functionality that doesn't exist on the terminal.

Take a look at the terminfo man page. (And don't ask me, I just know the theory

Skarr