Re: Visual Clues That The Application Is Mouse Enabled

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:47:06AM -0400, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> If you have tried GPM, as the mouse is moved around the screen the
> foreground and background colours are inverted where the mouse is
> currently placed.
> 
> I am wondering if it is possible to do this with X or worse yet, with

You could write an application using one of the terminal descriptions
(xterm-1002 for instance) that enable xterm's any-event mode, and
paint the cursor.

Doing that increases I/O significantly - not something you'd want to
do remotely.  GPM of course is on the local machine...

> ncurses on Windows ? Does mouse support even work in Windows?

mouse support works with the mingw port (console windows) as well as cygwin.
 
> I hate Win-dohs-s but I think I will have to deploy on it.
> 
> Is there some other way that you know of that would tell the user that
> the application has mouse support without them having to read
> application documentation?

That's up to the application (developer).  The library makes it possible:

       The  has_mouse  function returns TRUE if the mouse driver has been suc‐
       cessfully initialized.

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