From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization:	Materials Science Centre
To:	DJGPP AT DELORIE DOT COM
Date:	Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:49:44 GMT
Subject:	mouse
Message-ID:	<4B52A63A0C@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  Someone asked about trapping the mouse. Eli Zaretski once showed me how to
do it, and I developed it into a package which comes to about 115 lines of C++
program text. It works OK for 80*25 char text mode (at least in v1). (Graphics
modes ignore the trap routine; in larger char text modes e.g. 132*43 it often
crashes, blame DOS not djgpp.)
  This method does not make any of the keystrokes go dead.
  I find that if instead of trapping mouse events you keep on polling the
mouse in a tight loop, some of the special keystrokes, particularly those with
codes > 127 (e.g. alt_home = 151), are often ignored.

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