+ The has_mouse function returns TRUE if the mouse driver has been
+ successfully initialized, and FALSE otherwise.
+
+ Mouse events are ignored when input is in cooked mode, and cause an
+ error beep when cooked mode is being simulated in a window by a
+ function such as getstr that expects a linefeed for input-loop
+ termination.
+
+
To make mouse events visible, use the mousemask function. This sets
the mouse events to be reported. By default, no mouse events are
@@ -99,7 +109,7 @@
o If oldmask is non-NULL, this function fills the indicated location
with the previous value of the current screen's mouse event mask.
- As a side effect, setting a zero mousemask may turn off the mouse
+ As a side effect, setting a zero mouse mask may turn off the mouse
pointer; setting a nonzero mask may turn it on. Whether this happens
is device-dependent.
@@ -112,7 +122,6 @@
BUTTON1_PRESSED mouse button 1 down
BUTTON1_RELEASED mouse button 1 up
BUTTON1_CLICKED mouse button 1 clicked
-
BUTTON1_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 1 double clicked
BUTTON1_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 1 triple clicked
------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -174,33 +183,37 @@
TRUE if it is and FALSE otherwise. It is useful for determining what
subset of the screen windows enclose the location of a mouse event.
+ If the parameter is a pad, wenclose uses the most recent screen
+ coordinates used for this pad in prefresh(3x) or pnoutrefresh(3x).
+
- The wmouse_trafo function transforms a given pair of coordinates from
+ The wmouse_trafo function transforms a given pair of coordinates from
stdscr-relative coordinates to coordinates relative to the given window
- or vice versa. The resulting stdscr-relative coordinates are not
- always identical to window-relative coordinates due to the mechanism to
- reserve lines on top or bottom of the screen for other purposes (see
- the ripoffline and slk_init(3x) calls, for example).
-
- o If the parameter to_screen is TRUE, the pointers pY,pX must
- reference the coordinates of a location inside the window win.
- They are converted to window-relative coordinates and returned
- through the pointers. If the conversion was successful, the
+ or vice versa. The resulting stdscr-relative coordinates are not
+ always identical to screen coordinates due to the mechanism to reserve
+ lines on top or bottom of the screen for other purposes (see the
+ ripoffline(3x) and slk_init(3x) calls, for example).
+
+ o If the parameter to_screen is TRUE, the pointers pY,pX must
+ reference the coordinates of a location inside the window win.
+ They are converted to stdscr-relative coordinates and returned
+ through the pointers. If the conversion was successful, the
function returns TRUE.
- o If one of the parameters was NULL or the location is not inside the
+ If one of the parameters was NULL or the location is not inside the
window, FALSE is returned.
- o If to_screen is FALSE, the pointers pY,pX must reference window-
- relative coordinates. They are converted to stdscr-relative
- coordinates if the window win encloses this point. In this case
+ o If to_screen is FALSE, the pointers pY,pX must reference
+ stdscr-relative coordinates. They are converted to window-relative
+ coordinates if the window win encloses this point. In this case
the function returns TRUE.
- o If one of the parameters is NULL or the point is not inside the
- window, FALSE is returned. The referenced coordinates are only
- replaced by the converted coordinates if the transformation was
- successful.
+ If one of the parameters is NULL or the point is not inside the
+ window, FALSE is returned.
+
+ The referenced coordinates are only replaced by the converted
+ coordinates if the transformation was successful.
- The mouseinterval function sets the maximum time (in thousands of a
+ The mouseinterval function sets the maximum time (in thousandths of a
second) that can elapse between press and release events for them to be
- recognized as a click. Use mouseinterval(0) to disable click
- resolution. This function returns the previous interval value. Use
- mouseinterval(-1) to obtain the interval without altering it. The
- default is one sixth of a second.
+ resolved as a click. An application might interpret button press and
+ release events separated by more than the mouse interval as a "long
+ press", or, with motion, as a "drag".
+ Calling mouseinterval(0) disables click resolution. When ncurses
+ detects a mouse event, it awaits further input activity up to this
+ interval, and then checks for a subsequent mouse event which can be
+ combined with the first event. If the timeout expires without input
+ activity (which would happen with a zero interval), then no click
+ resolution will occur.
-
- The has_mouse function returns TRUE if the mouse driver has been
- successfully initialized, and FALSE otherwise.
+ This function returns the previous interval value. Use
+ mouseinterval(-1) to obtain the interval without altering it.
- Note that mouse events will be ignored when input is in cooked mode,
- and will cause an error beep when cooked mode is being simulated in a
- window by a function such as getstr that expects a linefeed for input-
- loop termination.
+ The mouse interval is set to one sixth of a second when the
+ corresponding screen is initialized, e.g., in initscr(3x) or
+ setupterm(3x).
@@ -243,20 +259,20 @@
o or if no more events remain in the queue.
- ungetmouse returns an error if the event queue is full.
+ ungetmouse returns ERR if the event queue is full.
mousemask returns the mask of reportable events.
- mouseinterval returns the previous interval value, unless the terminal
- was not initialized. In that case, it returns the maximum interval
+ mouseinterval returns the previous interval value, unless the terminal
+ was not initialized. In that case, it returns the maximum interval
value (166).
- The order of the MEVENT structure members is not guaranteed.
+ The order of the MEVENT structure members is not guaranteed.
Additional fields may be added to the structure in the future.
- Under ncurses, these calls are implemented using either xterm's built-
+ Under ncurses, these calls are implemented using either xterm's built-
in mouse-tracking API or platform-specific drivers including
o Alessandro Rubini's gpm server
@@ -268,9 +284,9 @@
If you are using an unsupported configuration, mouse events will not be
visible to ncurses (and the mousemask function will always return 0).
- If the terminfo entry contains a XM string, this is used in the xterm
- mouse driver to control the way the terminal is initialized for mouse
- operation. The default, if XM is not found, corresponds to private
+ If the terminfo entry contains a XM string, this is used in the xterm
+ mouse driver to control the way the terminal is initialized for mouse
+ operation. The default, if XM is not found, corresponds to private
mode 1000 of xterm:
\E[?1000%?%p1%{1}%=%th%el%;
@@ -279,40 +295,40 @@
\E[?1006;1000%?%p1%{1}%=%th%el%;
- The z member in the event structure is not presently used. It is
- intended for use with touch screens (which may be pressure-sensitive)
+ The z member in the event structure is not presently used. It is
+ intended for use with touch screens (which may be pressure-sensitive)
or with 3D-mice/trackballs/power gloves.
- The ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS class does not include REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION.
- They are distinct. For example, in xterm, wheel/scrolling mice send
- position reports as a sequence of presses of buttons 4 or 5 without
+ The ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS class does not include REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION.
+ They are distinct. For example, in xterm, wheel/scrolling mice send
+ position reports as a sequence of presses of buttons 4 or 5 without
matching button-releases.
- These functions were designed for ncurses(3x), and are not found in
- SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous curses
- implementation. (SVr4 curses did have a getmouse function, which took
+ These functions were designed for ncurses(3x), and are not found in
+ SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous curses
+ implementation. (SVr4 curses did have a getmouse function, which took
no argument and returned a different type.)
Applications employing the ncurses mouse extension should condition its
- use on the visibility of the NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION preprocessor macro.
- When the interface changes, the macro's value increments. Multiple
- versions are available when ncurses is configured; see section
+ use on the visibility of the NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION preprocessor macro.
+ When the interface changes, the macro's value increments. Multiple
+ versions are available when ncurses is configured; see section
"ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS" of ncurses(3x). The following values may be
specified.
1 has definitions for reserved events. The mask uses 28 bits.
- 2 adds definitions for button 5, removes the definitions for
+ 2 adds definitions for button 5, removes the definitions for
reserved events. The mask uses 29 bits.
- SVr4 curses had support for the mouse in a variant of xterm(1). It is
+ SVr4 curses had support for the mouse in a variant of xterm(1). It is
mentioned in a few places, with little supporting documentation.
- o Its "libcurses" manual page lists functions for this feature
+ o Its "libcurses" manual page lists functions for this feature
prototyped in curses.h.
extern int mouse_set(long int);
@@ -331,54 +347,54 @@
mouse_infominfoMi Mouse status information
req_mouse_posreqmpRQ Request mouse position report
- o The interface made assumptions (as does ncurses) about the escape
+ o The interface made assumptions (as does ncurses) about the escape
sequences sent to and received from the terminal.
For instance, the SVr4 curses library used the get_mouse capability
- to tell the terminal which mouse button events it should send,
- passing the mouse-button bit mask to the terminal. Also, it could
- ask the terminal where the mouse was using the req_mouse_pos
+ to tell the terminal which mouse button events it should send,
+ passing the mouse-button bit mask to the terminal. Also, it could
+ ask the terminal where the mouse was using the req_mouse_pos
capability.
- Those features required a terminal program that had been modified
- to work with SVr4 curses. They were not part of the X Consortium's
- xterm.
+ Those features required a terminal program that had been modified
+ to work with SVr4 curses. They were not part of the X Consortium's
+ xterm.
- When developing the xterm mouse support for ncurses in September 1995,
- Eric Raymond was uninterested in using the same interface due to its
+ When developing the xterm mouse support for ncurses in September 1995,
+ Eric Raymond was uninterested in using the same interface due to its
lack of documentation. Later, in 1998, Mark Hesseling provided support
- in PDCurses 2.3 using the SVr4 interface. PDCurses, however, does not
- use video terminals, making it unnecessary to be concerned about
+ in PDCurses 2.3 using the SVr4 interface. PDCurses, however, does not
+ use video terminals, making it unnecessary to be concerned about
compatibility with the escape sequences.
- Mouse events from xterm are not ignored in cooked mode if they have
- been enabled by mousemask. Instead, the xterm mouse report sequence
+ Mouse events from xterm are not ignored in cooked mode if they have
+ been enabled by mousemask. Instead, the xterm mouse report sequence
appears in the string read.
- Mouse event reports from xterm are not detected correctly in a window
- with keypad application mode disabled, since they are interpreted as a
- variety of function key. Set the terminal's terminfo capability kmous
- to "\E[M" (the beginning of the response from xterm for mouse clicks).
- Other values of kmous are permitted under the same assumption, that is,
- the report begins with that sequence.
+ An ncurses window must enable keypad(3x) to correctly receive mouse
+ event reports from xterm since they are encoded like function keys.
+ Set the terminal's terminfo capability kmous to "\E[M" (the beginning
+ of the response from xterm for mouse clicks). Other values of kmous
+ are permitted under the same assumption, that is, the report begins
+ with that sequence.
Because there are no standard response sequences that serve to identify
- terminals supporting the xterm mouse protocol, ncurses assumes that if
+ terminals supporting the xterm mouse protocol, ncurses assumes that if
kmous is defined in the terminal description, or if the terminal type's
- primary name or aliases contain the string "xterm", then the terminal
+ primary name or aliases contain the string "xterm", then the terminal
may send mouse events. The kmous capability is checked first, allowing
use of newer xterm mouse protocols, such as its private mode 1006.