Gregory wrote: >I would think that if the emulator allowed custom >handling of mouse events, it could take MOUSEMOVE events, translate >the relative offset from pixels to IOM x IOSL (but how would it know >these values?) and "fire" key events corresponding to simulate use of >the arrow keys (maybe with a modifier) to simulate the same relative >motion. But then, of course, ScreenMan would have to be modified to >understand these key sequences, too.
The ESCAPE sequences that report mouse events, report the row and column coordinates in terms of character cell positions within the display area of the terminal emulator. I had almost forgotten about the possibility of translating mouse events to arrow keys. That is the oldest and crudest way of getting some utility from a mouse in a terminal emulator. The best thing about it was that it would work even if the host application didn't know anything about the possibility of a mouse. I know I used that at least 20 years ago on early Macintosh with an emulator called VersaTerm. The VersaTerm documentation is what originally led me to understand that CHUI applications could use the mouse extensively - and quite efficiently - once they have a comprehensive means of handling ESCAPE sequences. --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
