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New Color Primitives in Epsilon 10


int get_foreground_color(int colorclass, ?int raw)
int get_background_color(int colorclass, ?int raw)

The EEL syntax for specifying color choices now provides for default settings for a color class. You can specify that a color class should normally be the same as some existing color class, or that it should normally use blue text, for example. You can then override these settings for particular color schemes, as necessary.

Some new macros ECOLOR_UNKNOWN and ECOLOR_COPY in color definitions represent the new possibilities. The primitives get_foreground_color( ) and get_background_color( ) now take an optional second parameter to retrieve color settings without defaulting rules applied.

short *get_color_scheme_variable()

Epsilon remembers the currently selected color scheme separately for various environments (graphical environments that support all possible colors, such as Windows and X; color terminals; monochrome terminals; and the Unix console). The get_color_scheme_variable( ) subroutine returns a pointer to the variable containing a color scheme index that's appropriate for the current environment.



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