ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100529

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_mouse.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_mouse.3x b/man/curs_mouse.3x
index 8dbabca5bd7bf9e6e91c3a27f37b6d0f88ad61dc..7353dd3eead0fdd824f77df22f3db28e38267947 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_mouse.3x
+++ b/man/curs_mouse.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_mouse.3x,v 1.32 2009/08/29 18:11:58 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_mouse.3x,v 1.35 2010/01/30 20:58:50 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_mouse 3X ""
 .na
 .hy 0
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ MEVENT;\fR
 .br
 \fBbool has_mouse(void);\fR
 .br
--\fBint getmouse(MEVENT *event);\fR
+\fBint getmouse(MEVENT *event);\fR
 .br
 \fBint ungetmouse(MEVENT *event);\fR
 .br
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ x in the event structure coordinates will be screen-relative character-cell
 coordinates.
 The returned state mask will have exactly one bit set to
 indicate the event type.
+The corresponding data in the queue is marked invalid.
+A subsequent call to \fBgetmouse\fP will retrieve the next older
+item from the queue.
 .PP
 The \fBungetmouse\fR function behaves analogously to \fBungetch\fR.
 It pushes
@@ -217,6 +220,7 @@ upon successful completion.
 returns an error.
 If no mouse driver was initialized, or
 if the mask parameter is zero,
+it also returns an error if no more events remain in the queue.
 .TP 5
 \fBungetmouse\fP
 returns an error if the FIFO is full.