Re: menu attribute granularity

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> Any chance that set_item_fore() / item_fore() and set_item_back() / 
> item_back() overrides would be accepted if i wrote them?  After all, pdcurses 
> does not have a menu lib to break compatibility with.

perhaps - I'd make it yet-another-configure option since it would change
the size of the ITEM struct (new fields would be on the end of course).

I've been thinking about adding the NCURSES_OPAQUE ifdef to the other
libraries, which would be useful for flushing out applications that use
the struct members directly.  One drawback is that there aren't defined
functions to do _all_ of the operations needed for the values (I used
one in demo_menus, iirc).

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