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<H1>curs_mouse 3x</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>getmouse</STRONG>, <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG>, <STRONG>mousemask</STRONG>, <STRONG>wenclose</STRONG>, <STRONG>mouse_trafo</STRONG>,
<STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG>, <STRONG>mouseinterval</STRONG> - mouse interface through
curses
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
<STRONG>typedef</STRONG> <STRONG>unsigned</STRONG> <STRONG>long</STRONG> <STRONG>mmask_t;</STRONG>
<STRONG>typedef</STRONG> <STRONG>struct</STRONG>
<STRONG>{</STRONG>
<STRONG>short</STRONG> <STRONG>id;</STRONG> <EM>/*</EM> <EM>ID</EM> <EM>to</EM> <EM>distinguish</EM> <EM>multiple</EM> <EM>devices</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>z;</STRONG> <EM>/*</EM> <EM>event</EM> <EM>coordinates</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
<STRONG>mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>bstate;</STRONG> <EM>/*</EM> <EM>button</EM> <EM>state</EM> <EM>bits</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
<STRONG>}</STRONG>
<STRONG>MEVENT;</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>getmouse(MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*event);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>ungetmouse(MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*event);</STRONG>
<STRONG>mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>mousemask(mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>newmask,</STRONG> <STRONG>mmask_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*oldmask);</STRONG>
<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>
<STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>mouse_trafo(int*</STRONG> <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>int*</STRONG> <STRONG>pX,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>to_screen);</STRONG>
<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>
<STRONG>bool</STRONG> <STRONG>to_screen);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mouseinterval(int</STRONG> <STRONG>erval);</STRONG>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
These functions provide an interface to mouse events from
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>. Mouse events are represented by <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG>
pseudo-key values in the <STRONG>wgetch</STRONG> input stream.
To make mouse events visible, use the <STRONG>mousemask</STRONG> function.
This will set the mouse events to be reported. By
default, no mouse events are reported. The function will
return a mask to indicate which of the specified mouse
events can be reported; on complete failure it returns 0.
If oldmask is non-NULL, this function fills the indicated
location with the previous value of the given window's
mouse event mask.
As a side effect, setting a zero mousemask may turn off
the mouse pointer; setting a nonzero mask may turn it on.
Whether this happens is device-dependent.
Here are the mouse event type masks:
<EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
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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
BUTTON2_PRESSED mouse button 2 down
BUTTON2_RELEASED mouse button 2 up
BUTTON2_CLICKED mouse button 2 clicked
BUTTON2_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 2 double clicked
BUTTON2_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 2 triple clicked
BUTTON3_PRESSED mouse button 3 down
BUTTON3_RELEASED mouse button 3 up
BUTTON3_CLICKED mouse button 3 clicked
BUTTON3_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 3 double clicked
BUTTON3_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 3 triple clicked
BUTTON4_PRESSED mouse button 4 down
BUTTON4_RELEASED mouse button 4 up
BUTTON4_CLICKED mouse button 4 clicked
BUTTON4_DOUBLE_CLICKED mouse button 4 double clicked
BUTTON4_TRIPLE_CLICKED mouse button 4 triple clicked
BUTTON_SHIFT shift was down during button state change
BUTTON_CTRL control was down during button state change
BUTTON_ALT alt was down during button state change
ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS report all button state changes
REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION report mouse movement
Once a class of mouse events have been made visible in a
window, calling the <STRONG>wgetch</STRONG> function on that window may
return <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG> as an indicator that a mouse event has
been queued. To read the event data and pop the event off
the queue, call <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG>. This function will return <STRONG>OK</STRONG> if
a mouse event is actually visible in the given window, <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>
otherwise. When <STRONG>getmouse</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG>, the data deposited
as y and 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 <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG> function behaves analogously to <STRONG>ungetch</STRONG>.
It pushes a <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG> event onto the input queue, and
associates with that event the given state data and
screen-relative character-cell coordinates.
The <STRONG>wenclose</STRONG> function tests whether a given pair of
screen-relative character-cell coordinates is enclosed by
a given window, returning TRUE if it is and FALSE other-
wise. It is useful for determining what subset of the
screen windows enclose the location of a mouse event.
The <STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG> function transforms a given pair of coor-
dinates from stdscr-relative coordinates to screen-rela-
tive coordinates or vice versa. Please remember, that
stdscr-relative coordinates are not always identical to
screen-relative coordinates due to the mechanism to
reserve lines on top or bottom of the screen for other
purposes (ripoff() call, see also slk_... functions). If
the parameter <STRONG>to_screen</STRONG> is <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>, the pointers <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>pX</STRONG> must
reference the coordinates of a location inside the window
<STRONG>win</STRONG>. They are converted to screen-relative coordinates
and returned through the pointers. If the conversion was
successful, the function returns <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>. If one of the
parameters was NULL or the location is not inside the win-
dow, <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> is returned. If <STRONG>to_screen</STRONG> is <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>, the point-
ers <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>pX</STRONG> must reference screen-relative coordinates.
They are converted to stdscr-relative coordinates if the
window <STRONG>win</STRONG> encloses this point. In this case the function
returns <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>. If one of the parameters is NULL or the
point is not inside the window, <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> is returned. Please
notice, that the referenced coordinates are only replaced
by the converted coordinates if the transformation was
successful.
The <STRONG>mouseinterval</STRONG> function sets the maximum time (in thou-
sands of a second) that can elapse between press and
release events for them to be recognized as a click. Use
<STRONG>mouseinterval(-1)</STRONG> to disable click resolution. This func-
tion returns the previous interval value. The default is
one sixth of a second.
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 <STRONG>get-</STRONG>
<STRONG>str</STRONG> that expects a linefeed for input-loop termination.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>getmouse</STRONG>, <STRONG>ungetmouse</STRONG> and <STRONG>mouseinterval</STRONG> return the integer
<STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure or <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon successful completion. <STRONG>mouse-</STRONG>
<STRONG>mask</STRONG> returns the mask of reportable events. <STRONG>wenclose</STRONG> and
<STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG> are boolean functions returning <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> or <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>
depending on their test result.
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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
These calls were designed for <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>, and are not
found in SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous
version of curses.
The feature macro <STRONG>NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION</STRONG> is provided so the
preprocessor can be used to test whether these features
are present (its value is 1). If the interface is
changed, the value of <STRONG>NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION</STRONG> will be incre-
mented.
The order of the <STRONG>MEVENT</STRONG> structure members is not guaran-
teed. Additional fields may be added to the structure in
the future.
Under <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>, these calls are implemented using
either xterm's built-in mouse-tracking API or Alessandro
Rubini's gpm server. If you are using something other
than xterm and there is no gpm daemon running on your
machine, mouse events will not be visible to <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>
(and the <STRONG>wmousemask</STRONG> function will always return <STRONG>0</STRONG>).
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.
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<H2>BUGS</H2><PRE>
Mouse events under xterm will not in fact be ignored dur-
ing cooked mode, if they have been enabled by <STRONG>wmousemask</STRONG>.
Instead, the xterm mouse report sequence will appear in
the string read.
Mouse events under xterm will not be detected correctly in
a window with its keypad bit off, since they are inter-
preted as a variety of function key. Your terminfo
description must have <STRONG>kmous</STRONG> set to "\E[M" (the beginning
of the response from xterm for mouse clicks).
Because there are no standard terminal responses that
would serve to identify terminals which support the xterm
mouse protocol, <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> assumes that if your $TERM envi-
ronment variable contains "xterm", or <STRONG>kmous</STRONG> is defined in
the terminal description, then the terminal may send mouse
events.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
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