Why is this text not being colored by ncurses?

Question

I wanted to create a window in ncurses, surround it with a box, and write some colored text in it. When I try to make simple colored text in the standard window it works perfectly, but when I try to put it in a new window the text appears white on black (i.e. the default) Here's the code I've tried. Why doens't it work? ``` #include <ncurses.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { initscreen(); WINDOW * win = newwin(8,15,1,1); box(win,0,0); start_color(); init_pair(1, COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_RED); attron(COLOR_PAIR(1)); mvwprintw(win,1,1,"colored text"); wrefresh(win); getch(); return 0; } ```

Accepted Answer

I soloved the problem by using

```
wattron(win, COLOR_PAIR(1));
```

instead of

```
attron(COLOR_PAIR(1));
```

`wattron` affects the given window, while `attron` assumes you mean `stdscr`, rather than the current window.

Why is this text not being colored by ncurses?

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