Re: mouse button release behavior

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, vaillant wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing an application with ncurses that uses button1 and button3
> simultaneously.  It appears that when holding down both buttons and then
> releasing either button, ncurses always registers that the released button
> is the last one pressed.  E.g. for the following 2 sequences, ncurses always
> registers that the final release is button3:
>
> press and hold button1--press and hold button3--release button1
> press and hold button1--press and hold button3--release button3
>
> Is this expected behavior?  I'm using ncurses 5.6 with OS X.

xterm's mouse protocol doesn't allow for more - it tells which button
is pressed, but not which one was released.

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