RE: memory leak problems, I might be doing something wrong

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, chinlu chinawa wrote:

> There's another thing I wanted to ask you. I've been
> reading about the mouse support in curses, though I
> might be doing something wrong cose is too slow, a
> click event is received almost half a second after the
> actual click (I mean is not real-time), which makes it
> not usable for production.

That sounds high - the default interval is 166
(see the mouseinterval() function)

> Then I discovered ctlseqs.txt, which is the xterm's
> control suquences text, and I wonder if you could tell
> me something about. I can see some functions who claim
> to return values but I don't know where to, nor how to
> catch them.

Essentially - the application prints to the terminal (usually stdout),
and the terminal prints back (to the application's stdin).

The application has to allow uncooked input, since the replies
don't contain newlines, etc.

> I've been looking at midnight-commander's source code,
> and it does open file descriptors for stdin, stdout,
> maybe is that what I should do?
>
> Am I wrong willing to do this through xterm? i.e.
> other x-based terminal emulators won't support it.

When enough applications use the feature, it happens that someone adds the 
feature to other terminal emulators.

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