Merge pull request #40 from rgburke/color

Expose COLORS and COLOR_PAIRS variables

ncurses.go

@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ func CanChangeColor() bool {
 	return bool(C.bool(C.can_change_color()))
 }
 
+// Colors returns the number of colors that the terminal supports
+func Colors() int {
+	return int(C.COLORS)
+}
+
 // Get RGB values for specified colour
 func ColorContent(col int16) (int16, int16, int16) {
 	var r, g, b C.short
@@ -65,6 +70,11 @@ func ColorPair(pair int16) Char {
 	return Char(C.ncurses_COLOR_PAIR(C.int(pair)))
 }
 
+// ColorPairs returns the maximum number of color pairs that the terminal supports
+func ColorPairs() int {
+	return int(C.COLOR_PAIRS)
+}
+
 // CursesVersion returns the version of the ncurses library currently linked to
 func CursesVersion() string {
 	return C.GoString(C.curses_version())