Re: lynx-dev mouse support

[dickey]

> I wish I knew what went wrong, I compiled ncurses succesfuly, but running 
> the test programs I never got these to recognize the mouse. It is probably 
> a problem with the options I gave initially. I had to compile 
> --with-termcap --enable-getcap-cache, because when installing with 
> terminfo I had the problem that borders did not appear in programs like 
> "knight". 

That sort of thing is usually due to ncurses having picked up a copy of
/etc/termcap (and installed it as $HOME/.terminfo), thereby masking the
real terminfo (it's in my ncurses faq - a bad design feature, but I was
outvoted).
  
>   To be sincere I really don't know what I am doing, so if there is 
> something I could read or do in order to make it work I would appreciate 
> your advice. 

sure - no problem.  Check first if you've got a $HOME/.terminfo; unless
you meant to create it, remove it (I don't use that feature, and ensure
that by creating a file named $HOME/.terminfo ;-)

Past that, the most frequent problem is having built ncurses to install
as -lcurses (and the corresponding header files get confused with Solaris'
curses.h).  So I almost always configure --disable-override.
  
>   With respect to the request I made yesterday, I partially solved it by 
> adding the lines 
>  
>        if (button == 1)  /* middle */ 
>           return LYReverseKeymap (LYK_VIEW_BOOKMARK); 
>  
> to LYStrings.c to the function sl_read_mouse, at line 326. I don't intend 
> to redistribute the program, so I expect this won't cause any problem at 
> all. 

I'll see (I haven't looked closely at this week's bug/patch reports yet
since I was working on xterm).

>   Thanks a lot. Have a great day! 
>  
> Eduardo 
> http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html 
>  


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