Mouse programming in Unix

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Hi Team,
I want to prepare a Text Editor for unix systems and would like to even program a mouse for moving from One Location to Another location in the editor and also use scroll bars. But can you please tell me how can all this be done in Unix.
Little Hint: Since most of the Unix Users will be accessing the server through Putty, i would like to program my editor in such a way that through putty when ever some one tries to use my editor, mouse should also appear.

Little detailed explanation would be really helpful for me to start this project.

Regards,
Kiran

Posted 13-Jun-11 21:12pm

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markkuk · Answer 1 · 2011-06-13T22:46:00

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Use the ncurses[^] library to make a mouse-controllable character mode program. The server must run gpm[^] for mouse support on text consoles like PuTTY.

Posted 13-Jun-11 22:46pm

markkuk

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[no name] 14-Jun-11 4:55am

Thank you very much,
But can you please suggest me any sites which includes the example source code of how to exactly use the gpm library files in designing the mouse events or trap the mouse events and etc.,

Regards,
Kiran

markkuk 14-Jun-11 5:16am

You should use the higher-level interface provided by the ncurses library instead of trying to talk directly to gpm. There are several tutorials and examples provided for ncurses, but very little for gpm.

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2011-06-13T22:11:00

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You should try the PuTTY website for information about using X11 like features this way. There are also lots of resources on the internet that will help you write an XTerm emulator.

Posted 13-Jun-11 22:11pm

Richard MacCutchan

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markkuk 14-Jun-11 4:49am

PuTTY is alreay a XTerm emulator, the OP wants to write a program running inside PuTTY (or other text console), not a PuTTY replacement.

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