ncurses multi colors on screen

Question

I want to make a menu with ncurses.h and more than one color. I mean something like this:

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Answer 1

You need to initialize colors and use the COLOR_PAIR macro.

Color pair 0 is reserved for default colors so you have to start your indexing at 1.

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initscr();
start_color();

init_pair(1, COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_RED);
init_pair(2, COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_GREEN);

attron(COLOR_PAIR(1));
printw("This should be printed in black with a red background!\n");

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