[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

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[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset 14cfa325c298ceb9eaf6b585a3cdcabf6c6378a9 by Zackery Spytz in branch 'master': bpo-39273: Expose BUTTON5_* constants in the curses module if available (GH-17996)

[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

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[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

Grady Martin added the comment: This baffled me, as well. Does the reason involve bit-field width? By the way, look at what my Python installation does when just *pressing* button 5 (mouse wheel down) after calling `curses.mousemask()`: ``` _curses.error: getmouse() returned ERR ``` The

[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

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[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

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[issue39273] ncurses does not include BUTTON5_* constants

New submission from Michael Yoo : Hi, Recently I was working with ncurses, and when handling the mouse scroll events, I noticed that the curses library does not include the BUTTON5_* macros provided by ncurses. On my system, BUTTON5 corresponds to the mouse down event. Is there a reason for