Change color per Character ncurses
Hello,
I am writing a program that reads a file and prints each character of a file in different randomly chosen color. I am using ncurses for that,
But the problem is that i cannot change color per character basis, rather it changes color of full screen each time while refreshing instead of character,
Code:
#include<ncurses.h>
#include<math.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int row, col, x, y, main_Color, r, g, b, c;
char ch;
FILE *fp;
if(argc != 2)
{
printf("Usage : %s <file>", argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if(fp == NULL)
{
perror("\nCannot open file\n");
exit(1);
}
initscr();
getmaxyx(stdscr, row, col);
start_color();
c = 1;
while((ch = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
{
getyx(stdscr, y, x);
if(y == (row - 1))
{
printw("<-- Press any key -->");
getch();
clear();
move(0,0);
}
main_Color = rand()%8;
r = rand()%1001;
g = rand()%1001;
b = rand()%1001;
init_color(main_Color, r,g,b);
//c is for random color pair index...
init_pair(c, main_Color, COLOR_BLACK);
chgat(1, A_NORMAL ,c, NULL);
printw("%c", ch);
refresh();
c++;
}
refresh();
getch();
fclose(fp);
endwin();
}
Am i suppose to use something else than chgat, also im not getting black background....
