[arm-allstar] Admin Menu Refresh & background color...

[David McGough]

Hi Ben,

The linux console is a terminal emulator as well, and the colors can be 
changed as well. The HamVoIP text menus are generated by the "dialog" 
command...For your situation, the simplest approach may be to generate a 
dialog config file and then edit it to adjust the colors, etc.  From a 
bash prompt, to generate:

[root at RPi-Z2W ~]# dialog --create-rc /root/.dialogrc


Then, edit this file with your favorite method and save.  The changes are 
immediate.  If you decide you need to start over or revert of the stock 
config, just remove the /root/.dialogrc file and/or recreate it.

As as example to turn the background color red, generate the .dialogrc 
file and then edit it, changing these parameters:

# Turn color support ON or OFF
#use_colors = OFF
use_colors = ON

# Screen color
#screen_color = (CYAN,BLUE,ON)
screen_color = (CYAN,RED,ON)


73, David K4FXC

On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Ben Weiss wrote:

> No, not a terminal emulator, a keyboard and monitor connected directly to the raspberry pi.
> 
> 
> --
> Ben Weiss
> http://LionsLair.com
> Clearlake, CA
> 
> > On Jan 7, 2024, at 10:37 AM, David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > The colors used are defined by your terminal emulator, not directly in
> > HamVoIP.  If you're using putty, you can change the colors in each saved
> > profile used to connect.  See the window-->colors config options.
> > 
> > Also, to refresh the screen, you can press the key combination: <ctrl>L
> > (control-L).
> > 
> > 
> > 73, David K4FXC
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Ben Weiss via ARM-allstar wrote:
> >> 
> >> So I have 2 repeaters sharing a cabinet, power supply and antenna (442.875, 147.24).  Each has their own RPi4 running HamVOIP 1.7-01 and I have a KVM switch and I was wondering if it wasn’t too much trouble if I could change the background color of the menus from blue to any other color (Red?  Purple?  Green?  Gray?) for one of the nodes so I could tell at a glance which one I was looking at.
> > 
> > And while I’m on the subject, whenever I switch, it’d be nice to not have to click an option (Such as #1, Perform a system UPDATE) every time I switch from one to the other in order to redraw the screen.  
> > 
> > Can I assume that HamVOIP is using some standard menu library for implementation?  Is there a configuration file somewhere I could mess with?  If I even knew what this menu was called (assuming I don’t need unavailable source code), I could research it myself…??
> > 
> > Any help much appreciated!
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Ben Weiss       http://www.LionsLair.com        WB5QAL (Ham Radio)
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> > Node 540341    147.240+ pl.103.5        “
> > 
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