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curs_mouse(3X)							curs_mouse(3X)

NAME
       getmouse,  ungetmouse,  mousemask, wenclose, mouse_trafo, wmouse_trafo,
       mouseinterval - mouse interface through curses

SYNOPSIS
       #include <ncurses.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(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 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.	Whether	 this  happens
       is device-dependent.

       Here are the mouse event type masks:

       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
       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, call‐
       ing the wgetch function on that window may return KEY_MOUSE as an indi‐
       cator  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 other‐
       wise.  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 associates  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 enclose the location of a mouse event.

       The wmouse_trafo function transforms a given pair of  coordinates  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-rela‐
       tive 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 parameters 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 in  order  for
       them  to	 be recognized as a click.  This function returns the previous
       interval value.	The default is one fifth 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.

RETURN VALUE
       getmouse,  ungetmouse  and  mouseinterval  return  the integer ERR upon
       failure or OK upon successful completion. mousemask returns the mask of
       reportable  events.  wenclose  and  wmouse_trafo	 are boolean functions
       returning TRUE or FALSE depending on their test result.

PORTABILITY
       These calls were designed for ncurses(3X), 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  (its  value  is
       1).   If	 the  interface is changed, the value of NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION
       will be incremented.

       The order of the MEVENT structure members  is  not  guaranteed.	 Addi‐
       tional fields may be added to the structure in the future.

       Under  ncurses(3X),  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  ncurses(3X)  (and
       the wmousemask function will always return 0).

       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.

BUGS
       Mouse  events  under  xterm  will  not in fact be ignored during cooked
       mode, if they have been enabled	by  wmousemask.	  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 interpreted  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 $DISPLAY environment variable is set, and kmous is
       defined	in  the terminal description, then the terminal may send mouse
       events.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X).

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