Re: under ncurses, mouse events come as escape codes

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Adam H. Peterson wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Adam H. Peterson wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having difficulty reading mouse events under NCurses.  Instead of 
> > > receiving KEY_MOUSE from getch(), I'm getting escape codes.  For example, 
> > > this program:
> >
> > perhaps $TERM isn't set properly (even though gnome-terminal hardcodes
> > "xterm" rather than "gnome" ;-).  ncurses is looking for "xterm" embedded
> > in the $TERM name, or kmous matching xterm's string in the corresponding
> > terminfo description.
>
> I was wondering about that.  I also tried it after "export TERM=gnome" and 
> got the same results (and like I mentioned, I tried it in a bona fide XTerm 
> as well).
>
> Is there a way I can check that this is the problem?  (And if so, is there a 
> fix?)  If it's relevant, I'm running Gentoo Linux 2005.1, and I also get the 
> same problem under Ubuntu Hoary.

hmm - looking closer, you also have to use the keypad() function, e.g.,
        keypad(stdscr, TRUE);

That's because wgetch() is supposed to return 8-bit values unless keypad()
is set true.

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