About the color types

[diego-c]

According to the documentation, taking the Border object as an example, it says:

• border - Border object.
  • type - Type of border (line or bg). bg by default.
  • ch - Character to use if bg type, default is space.
  • bg, fg - Border foreground and background, must be numbers (-1 for
    default).
  • bold, underline - Border attributes.

And about the colors:

Colors

Colors can be the names of any of the 16 basic terminal colors, along with hex
values (e.g. #ff0000) for 256 color terminals. If 256 or 88 colors is not
supported. Blessed with reduce the color to whatever is available.

I understand that something like:

const border = {
    fg: 0,
    bg: 22
}

Could be similar to:

const border = {
    fg: 'black',
    bg: 'green'
}

But shouldn't it say that fg and bg could also be strings?

[ghost]

Colors can be the names...

[diego-c]

@hypersad Exactly, so why does the first quote for the Border object says bg and fg must be numbers?

I'm just curious, because in @types/blessed the same quote is referenced and bg and fg are also defined as numbers.

[ghost]

Could it be outdated? Or, maybe there is some kind of internal converter.

[diego-c]

Yep, looks like the colors are mapped and converted on lib/colors.js. Also referenced on #108.

Thanks for the response. I'll open a PR, though not sure if the project is still actively maintained.