On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:37:33AM +0800, eric pareja wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:32:35PM +0800, Andy Sy wrote:
>
> > Anyone out there have any comments regarding using curses
> > (under Python or otherwise) for a database front end app?
> > How's the mouse support, if any?
>
> as far as i recall, mouse support is a kludge when dealing with text
> UIs on *n*x. BUT... you would do well to look at the
> documentation/source for 'gpm' to see how to interface your app with
> gpm as your mouse server.
ok... i dug a little deeper since i'm also heading toward writing
python curses UIs with possible mouse hotspots. check the Python
Library reference for curses functions. it has mouse support!!
curses.getmouse()
happy hacking!
eric
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