php ncurses - colors not working

Hello, I have been working with php ncurses for an IRC client and I have a problem with using colors. I have been able to find the example php-4.3.2/ext/ncurses/example1.php, and that does work. It seems to use ncurses_color_set() for setting the color. However, my application uses 3 windows. And within those windows, ncurses_color_set() doesn't do anything at all. Btw, with windows I mean ncurses windows, not the operating system :). I have been looking at the manpages for the C ncurses functions but that didn't really help me out. I have also looked at a C++ ncurses application that uses colors in windows. That used wattron() and wbgkdset(). But if I understand php-4.3.2/ext/ncurses/c-prototypes correctly, those functions are not implemented in php ncurses. Another thing I have tried is to send terminal control characters like ^[[0;31;40m. But they are just outputted to the screen. Google doesn't seem to help me out on this problem and I can't even find other php ncurses projects. Ofcourse, I could also just be wasting my time here because it is just impossible. For those interested, my project has a sourceforge project page at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/torc. I have not included any sources from it because I thought that would not be relevant. Thanks in advance, Erik Romijn