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40 <H1>curs_mouse 3x</H1>
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51 <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG>, <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG>, <STRONG>mousemask</STRONG>, <STRONG>wenclose</STRONG>, <STRONG>mouse_trafo</STRONG>,
52 <STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG>, <STRONG>mouseinterval</STRONG> - mouse interface through
57 <H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
58 <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
60 <STRONG>typedef</STRONG> <STRONG>unsigned</STRONG> <STRONG>long</STRONG> <STRONG>mmask_t;</STRONG>
64 short id; <EM>/*</EM> <EM>ID</EM> <EM>to</EM> <EM>distinguish</EM> <EM>multiple</EM> <EM>devices</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
65 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>z;</STRONG> <EM>/*</EM> <EM>event</EM> <EM>coordinates</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
66 <STRONG>mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>bstate;</STRONG> <EM>/*</EM> <EM>button</EM> <EM>state</EM> <EM>bits</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
68 <STRONG>MEVENT;</STRONG>
69 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>getmouse(MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*event);</STRONG>
70 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>ungetmouse(MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*event);</STRONG>
71 <STRONG>mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>mousemask(mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>newmask,</STRONG> <STRONG>mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*oldmask);</STRONG>
72 <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>wenclose(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x);</STRONG>
73 <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>mouse_trafo(int*</STRONG> <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>int*</STRONG> <STRONG>pX,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>to_screen);</STRONG>
74 <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>wmouse_trafo(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW*</STRONG> <STRONG>win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int*</STRONG> <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>int*</STRONG> <STRONG>pX,</STRONG>
75 <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>to_screen);</STRONG>
76 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mouseinterval(int</STRONG> <STRONG>erval);</STRONG>
80 <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
81 These functions provide an interface to mouse events from
82 <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>. Mouse events are represented by <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG>
83 pseudo-key values in the <STRONG>wgetch</STRONG> input stream.
85 To make mouse events visible, use the <STRONG>mousemask</STRONG> function.
86 This will set the mouse events to be reported. By de-
87 fault, no mouse events are reported. The function will
88 return a mask to indicate which of the specified mouse
89 events can be reported; on complete failure it returns 0.
90 If oldmask is non-NULL, this function fills the indicated
91 location with the previous value of the given window's
94 As a side effect, setting a zero mousemask may turn off
95 the mouse pointer; setting a nonzero mask may turn it on.
96 Whether this happens is device-dependent.
98 Here are the mouse event type masks which may be defined:
101 <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
102 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
103 BUTTON1_PRESSED mouse button 1 down
104 BUTTON1_RELEASED mouse button 1 up
105 BUTTON1_CLICKED mouse button 1 clicked
106 BUTTON1_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 1 double clicked
107 BUTTON1_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 1 triple clicked
108 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
109 BUTTON2_PRESSED mouse button 2 down
110 BUTTON2_RELEASED mouse button 2 up
111 BUTTON2_CLICKED mouse button 2 clicked
112 BUTTON2_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 2 double clicked
113 BUTTON2_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 2 triple clicked
114 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
116 BUTTON3_PRESSED mouse button 3 down
117 BUTTON3_RELEASED mouse button 3 up
118 BUTTON3_CLICKED mouse button 3 clicked
119 BUTTON3_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 3 double clicked
120 BUTTON3_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 3 triple clicked
121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
122 BUTTON4_PRESSED mouse button 4 down
123 BUTTON4_RELEASED mouse button 4 up
124 BUTTON4_CLICKED mouse button 4 clicked
125 BUTTON4_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 4 double clicked
126 BUTTON4_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 4 triple clicked
127 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
128 BUTTON5_PRESSED mouse button 5 down
129 BUTTON5_RELEASED mouse button 5 up
130 BUTTON5_CLICKED mouse button 5 clicked
131 BUTTON5_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 5 double clicked
132 BUTTON5_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 5 triple clicked
133 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
134 BUTTON_SHIFT shift was down during button state change
135 BUTTON_CTRL control was down during button state change
136 BUTTON_ALT alt was down during button state change
137 ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS report all button state changes
138 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION report mouse movement
139 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
141 Once a class of mouse events have been made visible in a
142 window, calling the <STRONG>wgetch</STRONG> function on that window may re-
143 turn <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG> as an indicator that a mouse event has been
144 queued. To read the event data and pop the event off the
145 queue, call <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG>. This function will return <STRONG>OK</STRONG> if a
146 mouse event is actually visible in the given window, <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>
147 otherwise. When <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG>, the data deposited
148 as y and x in the event structure coordinates will be
149 screen-relative character-cell coordinates. The returned
150 state mask will have exactly one bit set to indicate the
153 The <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG> function behaves analogously to <STRONG>ungetch</STRONG>.
154 It pushes a <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG> event onto the input queue, and as-
155 sociates with that event the given state data and screen-
156 relative character-cell coordinates.
158 The <STRONG>wenclose</STRONG> function tests whether a given pair of
159 screen-relative character-cell coordinates is enclosed by
160 a given window, returning TRUE if it is and FALSE other-
161 wise. It is useful for determining what subset of the
162 screen windows enclose the location of a mouse event.
164 The <STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG> function transforms a given pair of coor-
165 dinates from stdscr-relative coordinates to coordinates
166 relative to the given window or vice versa. Please remem-
167 ber, that stdscr-relative coordinates are not always iden-
168 tical to window-relative coordinates due to the mechanism
169 to reserve lines on top or bottom of the screen for other
170 purposes (see the <STRONG>ripoffline()</STRONG> and <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG> calls, for ex-
171 ample). If the parameter <STRONG>to_screen</STRONG> is <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>, the pointers
172 <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>pX</STRONG> must reference the coordinates of a location inside
173 the window <STRONG>win</STRONG>. They are converted to window-relative co-
174 ordinates and returned through the pointers. If the con-
175 version was successful, the function returns <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>. If one
176 of the parameters was NULL or the location is not inside
177 the window, <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> is returned. If <STRONG>to_screen</STRONG> is <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>, the
178 pointers <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>pX</STRONG> must reference window-relative coordi-
179 nates. They are converted to stdscr-relative coordinates
180 if the window <STRONG>win</STRONG> encloses this point. In this case the
181 function returns <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>. If one of the parameters is NULL
182 or the point is not inside the window, <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> is returned.
183 Please notice, that the referenced coordinates are only
184 replaced by the converted coordinates if the transforma-
187 The <STRONG>mouse_trafo</STRONG> function performs the same translation as
188 <STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG>, using stdscr for <STRONG>win</STRONG>.
190 The <STRONG>mouseinterval</STRONG> function sets the maximum time (in thou-
191 sands of a second) that can elapse between press and re-
192 lease events for them to be recognized as a click. Use
193 <STRONG>mouseinterval(0)</STRONG> to disable click resolution. This func-
194 tion returns the previous interval value. Use <STRONG>mouseinter-</STRONG>
195 <STRONG>val(-1)</STRONG> to obtain the interval without altering it. The
196 default is one sixth of a second.
198 Note that mouse events will be ignored when input is in
199 cooked mode, and will cause an error beep when cooked mode
200 is being simulated in a window by a function such as <STRONG>get-</STRONG>
201 <STRONG>str</STRONG> that expects a linefeed for input-loop termination.
205 <H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
206 <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG> and <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG> return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon fail-
207 ure or <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon successful completion.
209 <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG>
210 returns an error. If no mouse driver was ini-
211 tialized, or if the mask parameter is zero,
213 <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG>
214 returns an error if the FIFO is full.
216 <STRONG>mousemask</STRONG> returns the mask of reportable events.
218 <STRONG>mouseinterval</STRONG> returns the previous interval value, unless
219 the terminal was not initialized. In that case, it re-
220 turns the maximum interval value (166).
222 <STRONG>wenclose</STRONG> and <STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG> are boolean functions returning
223 <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> or <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> depending on their test result.
227 <H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
228 These calls were designed for <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>, and are not
229 found in SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous
232 The feature macro <STRONG>NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION</STRONG> is provided so the
233 preprocessor can be used to test whether these features
234 are present. If the interface is changed, the value of
235 <STRONG>NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION</STRONG> will be incremented. These values
236 for <STRONG>NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION</STRONG> may be specified when configur-
239 1 has definitions for reserved events. The mask
242 2 adds definitions for button 5, removes the defi-
243 nitions for reserved events. The mask uses 29
246 The order of the <STRONG>MEVENT</STRONG> structure members is not guaran-
247 teed. Additional fields may be added to the structure in
250 Under <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>, these calls are implemented using ei-
251 ther xterm's built-in mouse-tracking API or platform-spe-
252 cific drivers including
253 Alessandro Rubini's gpm server.
256 If you are using an unsupported configuration, mouse
257 events will not be visible to <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG> (and the <STRONG>mouse-</STRONG>
258 <STRONG>mask</STRONG> function will always return <STRONG>0</STRONG>).
260 If the terminfo entry contains a <STRONG>XM</STRONG> string, this is used
261 in the xterm mouse driver to control the way the terminal
262 is initialized for mouse operation. The default, if <STRONG>XM</STRONG> is
263 not found, corresponds to private mode 1000 of xterm:
264 \E[?1000%?%p1%{1}%=%th%el%;
265 The z member in the event structure is not presently used.
266 It is intended for use with touch screens (which may be
267 pressure-sensitive) or with 3D-mice/trackballs/power
273 Mouse events under xterm will not in fact be ignored dur-
274 ing cooked mode, if they have been enabled by <STRONG>mousemask</STRONG>.
275 Instead, the xterm mouse report sequence will appear in
278 Mouse events under xterm will not be detected correctly in
279 a window with its keypad bit off, since they are inter-
280 preted as a variety of function key. Your terminfo de-
281 scription should have <STRONG>kmous</STRONG> set to "\E[M" (the beginning
282 of the response from xterm for mouse clicks). Other val-
283 ues for <STRONG>kmous</STRONG> are permitted, but under the same assump-
284 tion, i.e., it is the beginning of the response.
286 Because there are no standard terminal responses that
287 would serve to identify terminals which support the xterm
288 mouse protocol, <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> assumes that if your $TERM envi-
289 ronment variable contains "xterm", or <STRONG>kmous</STRONG> is defined in
290 the terminal description, then the terminal may send mouse
295 <H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
296 <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_kernel.3x.html">curs_kernel(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">curs_slk(3x)</A></STRONG>.
300 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_mouse.3x.html">curs_mouse(3x)</A></STRONG>
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