curs_mouse(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_mouse(3)
getmouse, ungetmouse, mousemask, wenclose, mouse_trafo,
wmouse_trafo, mouseinterval - mouse interface through curses
#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;
int getmouse(MEVENT *event);
int ungetmouse(MEVENT *event);
mmask_t mousemask(mmask_t newmask, mmask_t *oldmask);
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);
These functions provide an interface to mouse events from
ncurses(3). Mouse events are represented by KEY_MOUSE
pseudo-key values in the wgetch input stream.
To make mouse events visible, use the mousemask 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. Wheth-
er this happens is device-dependent.
Here are the mouse event type masks which may be defined:
Name Description
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Once a class of mouse events have been made visible in a
window, calling the wgetch function on that window may re-
turn 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 ungetmouse function behaves analogously to ungetch. It
pushes a KEY_MOUSE event onto the input queue, and associ-
ates with that event the given state data and screen-
relative character-cell coordinates.
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 en-
close the location of a mouse event.
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The wmouse_trafo function transforms a given pair of coordi-
nates from stdscr-relative coordinates to screen-relative
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
to_screen is TRUE, the pointers pY, pX must reference the
coordinates of a location inside the window win. They are
converted to screen-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. If
to_screen is FALSE, the pointers pY, pX must reference
screen-relative coordinates. They are converted to stdscr-
relative coordinates if the window win encloses this point.
In this case the function returns TRUE. If one of the param-
eters is NULL or the point is not inside the window, FALSE
is returned. Please notice, that 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 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.
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.
getmouse and ungetmouse return the integer ERR upon failure
or OK upon successful completion.
getmouse
returns an error. If no mouse driver was initial-
ized, or if the mask parameter is zero,
ungetmouse
returns an error if the FIFO 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).
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wenclose and wmouse_trafo are boolean functions returning
TRUE or FALSE depending on their test result.
These calls were designed for ncurses(3), and are not found
in SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous version
of curses.
The feature macro NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION is provided so the
preprocessor can be used to test whether these features are
present. If the interface is changed, the value of
NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION will be incremented. These values for
NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION may be specified when configuring
ncurses:
1 has definitions for reserved events. The mask uses
28 bits.
2 adds definitions for button 5, removes the defini-
tions for reserved events. The mask uses 29 bits.
The order of the MEVENT structure members is not guaranteed.
Additional fields may be added to the structure in the fu-
ture.
Under ncurses(3), these calls are implemented using either
xterm's built-in mouse-tracking API or platform-specific
drivers including
Alessandro Rubini's gpm server.
FreeBSD sysmouse
OS/2 EMX
If you are using an unsupported configuration, mouse events
will not be visible to ncurses(3) (and the wmousemask func-
tion 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 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.
Mouse events under xterm will not in fact be ignored during
cooked mode, if they have been enabled by wmousemask. In-
stead, 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 interpreted
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as a variety of function key. Your terminfo description must
have kmous 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, ncurses assumes that if your $TERM environment
variable contains "xterm", or kmous is defined in the termi-
nal description, then the terminal may send mouse events.
curses(3).
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