Re: [PATCH 01/22] Initial TUI mouse support

[Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>]

 Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2021, 18:32:32 MEZ hat Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> Folgendes geschrieben:

> >>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Domani via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
>
> Hannes> Implements an overridable tui_win_info::click method whose arguments
> Hannes> are the mouse coordinates inside the specific window, and the mouse
> Hannes> button clicked.
>
> Thank you.  This is a very welcome development.
>
> I won't comment on tests or comments in the code.
>
> Hannes> +#ifdef BUTTON5_PRESSED
> Hannes> +        else if (mev.bstate & BUTTON4_PRESSED)
> Hannes> +          wi->backward_scroll (3);
> Hannes> +        else if (mev.bstate & BUTTON5_PRESSED)
> Hannes> +          wi->forward_scroll (3);
> Hannes> +#endif
>
> One question I have here is that, right now, the mouse wheel already
> works to scroll for me.
>
> I assume this won't change.  But I wonder why new code is needed.
> Maybe it's the case that if you enable mouse events, curses turns off
> automatic translation of scroll wheel to scrolling?

I was not aware of that, and have never seen this behavior.
How does that work, how is the mouse wheel currently translated to
window scrolling?


Hannes