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curs_mouse 3x 2024-05-25 ncurses 6.5 Library calls

curs_mouse(3x)                   Library calls                  curs_mouse(3x)




NAME

       has_mouse,  getmouse,  ungetmouse,  mousemask,  wenclose,  mouse_trafo,
       wmouse_trafo, mouseinterval - get mouse events in curses


SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>

       typedef unsigned long mmask_t;

       typedef struct {
           short id;         /* ID to distinguish multiple devices */
           int x, y, z;      /* event coordinates */
           mmask_t bstate;   /* button state bits */
       } MEVENT;

       bool has_mouse(void);

       mmask_t mousemask(mmask_t newmask, mmask_t *oldmask);

       int getmouse(MEVENT *event);
       int ungetmouse(MEVENT *event);

       bool wenclose(const WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

       bool mouse_trafo(int* pY, int* pX, bool to_screen);
       bool wmouse_trafo(const WINDOW* win,
                         int* pY, int* pX, bool to_screen);

       int mouseinterval(int erval);


DESCRIPTION

       These functions provide an interface to mouse events from  ncurses(3x).
       Mouse  events  are  represented  by  KEY_MOUSE pseudo-key values in the
       wgetch(3x) input stream.


has_mouse

       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.


mousemask

       To make mouse events visible, use the mousemask  function.   This  sets
       the  mouse  events  to  be  reported.   By default, no mouse events are
       reported.

       o   The function returns an updated copy of newmask to  indicate  which
           of the specified mouse events can be reported.

           If the screen has not been initialized, or if the terminal does not
           support mouse-events, this function returns 0.

       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 mouse mask may turn off the mouse
       pointer; setting a nonzero mask may turn it on.  Whether  this  happens
       is device-dependent.


Mouse Events

       Here are the mouse event type masks which may be defined:

       Name                     Description
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------
       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
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------
       BUTTON5_PRESSED          mouse button 5 down
       BUTTON5_RELEASED         mouse button 5 up
       BUTTON5_CLICKED          mouse button 5 clicked
       BUTTON5_DOUBLE_CLICKED   mouse button 5 double clicked
       BUTTON5_TRIPLE_CLICKED   mouse button 5 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
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------


getmouse

       Once a class of mouse events has been made visible in a window, calling
       the wgetch function on that window may return KEY_MOUSE as an indicator
       that a mouse event has been queued.  To read the event data and pop the
       event off the queue, call getmouse.  This function will return OK if  a
       mouse  event  is  actually  visible in the given window, ERR otherwise.
       When getmouse returns OK, 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 corresponding data in the queue is marked
       invalid.  A subsequent call to getmouse will retrieve  the  next  older
       item from the queue.


ungetmouse

       The  ungetmouse  function  behaves analogously to ungetch.  It pushes a
       KEY_MOUSE event onto the input queue, and associates  with  that  event
       the given state data and screen-relative character-cell coordinates.


wenclose

       The  wenclose  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 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).


wmouse_trafo

       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 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.

           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
           stdscr-relative coordinates.  They are converted to window-relative
           coordinates  if  the  window win encloses this point.  In this case
           the function returns TRUE.

           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.


mouse_trafo

       The mouse_trafo function performs the same translation as wmouse_trafo,
       using stdscr for win.


mouseinterval

       The  mouseinterval  function sets the maximum time (in thousandths of a
       second) that can elapse between press and release events for them to be
       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.

       This   function   returns   the   previous   interval    value.     Use
       mouseinterval(-1) to obtain the interval without altering it.

       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).


RETURN VALUE

       has_mouse, wenclose, mouse_trafo, and wmouse_trafo return TRUE or FALSE
       as noted above.

       getmouse and ungetmouse return ERR upon failure and OK upon success.

       getmouse fails if:

       o   no mouse driver was initialized,

       o   the mask of reportable events is zero,

       o   a mouse event was detected that does not match the mask,

       o   or if no more events remain in the queue.

       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
       value (166).


NOTES

       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-
       in mouse-tracking API or platform-specific drivers including

          o   Alessandro Rubini's gpm server

          o   FreeBSD sysmouse

          o   OS/2 EMX

       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
       mode 1000 of xterm:

          \E[?1000%?%p1%{1}%=%th%el%;

       The mouse driver also recognizes a newer xterm private mode 1006, e.g.,

          \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)
       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
       matching button-releases.


EXTENSIONS

       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.)


PORTABILITY

       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
       "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
             reserved events.  The mask uses 29 bits.

       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
           prototyped in curses.h.

               extern int mouse_set(long int);
               extern int mouse_on(long int);
               extern int mouse_off(long int);
               extern int request_mouse_pos(void);
               extern int map_button(unsigned long);
               extern void wmouse_position(WINDOW *, int *, int *);
               extern unsigned long getmouse(void), getbmap(void);

       o   Its "terminfo" manual page lists capabilities for the feature.

               buttons         btns    BT   Number of buttons on the mouse
               get_mouse       getm    Gm   Curses should get button events
               key_mouse       kmous   Km   0631, Mouse event has occurred
               mouse_info      minfo   Mi   Mouse status information
               req_mouse_pos   reqmp   RQ   Request mouse position report

       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
           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.

       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
       compatibility with the escape sequences.


BUGS

       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.

       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
       kmous is defined in the terminal description, or if the terminal type's
       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.


SEE ALSO

       curses(3x),     curs_inopts(3x),     curs_kernel(3x),     curs_pad(3x),
       curs_slk(3x), curs_variables(3x)



ncurses 6.5                       2024-05-25                    curs_mouse(3x)