#67 init_color does not initialize the color (without fail)

[Bmauet]

OS : Windows 7 RC
version : pdcurses 3.4 with unicode support

When try I to init a color with init_color, the color does not change. The test given with source code (testcurs.c) do'nt work too.
With the uploaded file, I've the ouput :
"<default colors>
Has colors : yes, can change color : yes, COLORS : 16, COLOR_PAIRS : 256
COLOR_RED : 502, 0, 0</>
<red>Red</>
<red/same line>yet green</>"

[Bmauet]

A test for init_color

[William McBrine]

For Win32, init_color() uses an undocumented API. It's not too surprising that it would break in Win 7. It could take a long time to fix this, if ever -- so far I haven't found any info on the right way to do it in Win 7, assuming that one even exists.

Sorry for the delay in replying. I thought this thing was supposed to email me when a new bug was entered.

[Mark Hessling]

This also fails on Windows XP with service pack 3.

[Didrole]

The couple of functions GetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx / SetConsoleWindowInfo provide the needed functionalities on Vista and upper.
Here is a patch: http://didrole.com/pdcscrn.c.diff