Visual Clues That The Application Is Mouse Enabled

[Patrick]

Hi Everyone

If you have tried GPM, as the mouse is moved around the screen the
foreground and background colours are inverted where the mouse is
currently placed.

I am wondering if it is possible to do this with X or worse yet, with
ncurses on Windows ? Does mouse support even work in Windows?

I hate Win-dohs-s but I think I will have to deploy on it.

Is there some other way that you know of that would tell the user that
the application has mouse support without them having to read
application documentation?

I have thought about just using GPM and going without X but I don't
think I can do it. This is for an scientific instrument control
application and all of the labs are Windows only so I am stuck.

Thanks for reading-Patrick