Re: mouse button release behavior

[Marc Vaillant]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:45:53PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, vaillant wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing an application with ncurses that uses button1 and button3
>> simultaneously.  It appears that when holding down both buttons and then
>> releasing either button, ncurses always registers that the released button
>> is the last one pressed.  E.g. for the following 2 sequences, ncurses always
>> registers that the final release is button3:
>>
>> press and hold button1--press and hold button3--release button1
>> press and hold button1--press and hold button3--release button3
>>
>> Is this expected behavior?  I'm using ncurses 5.6 with OS X.
>
> xterm's mouse protocol doesn't allow for more - it tells which button
> is pressed, but not which one was released.

But it queues an event when a button is released?  For both sequences
above I get BUTTON1_PRESSED -> BUTTON3_PRESSED -> BUTTON3_RELEASED.

Is there anything I can do to get proper behavior?  Can I use a
different terminal? 

Thanks,
Marc