ncurses_mousemask

Description

Function ncurses_mousemask() will set mouse events to be reported. By default no mouse events will be reported. The function ncurses_mousemask() will return a mask to indicated which of the in parameter newmask specified mouse events can be reported. On complete failure, it returns 0. In parameter oldmask, which is passed by reference ncurses_mousemask() returns the previous value of mouse event mask. Mouse events are represented by NCURSES_KEY_MOUSE in the ncurses_wgetch() input stream. To read the event data and pop the event of of queue, call ncurses_getmouse().

As a side effect, setting a zero mousemask in newmask turns off the mouse pointer. Setting a non zero value turns mouse pointer on.

mouse mask options can be set with the following predefined constants:

• NCURSES_BUTTON1_PRESSED

• NCURSES_BUTTON1_RELEASED

• NCURSES_BUTTON1_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON1_DOUBLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON1_TRIPLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON2_PRESSED

• NCURSES_BUTTON2_RELEASED

• NCURSES_BUTTON2_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON2_DOUBLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON2_TRIPLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON3_PRESSED

• NCURSES_BUTTON3_RELEASED

• NCURSES_BUTTON3_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON3_DOUBLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON3_TRIPLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON4_PRESSED

• NCURSES_BUTTON4_RELEASED

• NCURSES_BUTTON4_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON4_DOUBLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON4_TRIPLE_CLICKED

• NCURSES_BUTTON_SHIFT>

• NCURSES_BUTTON_CTRL

• NCURSES_BUTTON_ALT

• NCURSES_ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS

• NCURSES_REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION

See also ncurses_getmouse(), ncurses_ungetmouse() and ncurese_getch().