Re: REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION causes infinite loop

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:31:58AM -0400, H. Nanosecond wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There seems to be a problem when using REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION,
> which is supposed to report mouse movement.
> (I have ncurses version 5.1.20000708 and gpm-19.3 and use
> a linux console and an xterm)
> 
> Do mousemask(REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION, (mmask_t *) 0); and 
> click the mouse button and ncurses goes into an infinite loop in kgetch.

I think the short answer is that REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION is not implemented.
(sorry - I guess that's something else for the to-do list: for a short-term,
I'll check/see about making it not loop).

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