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echo: mystic
to: G00R00
from: ROB SWINDELL
date: 2020-05-17 20:46:00
subject: Re: Mouse support in Netr

  Re: Re: Mouse support in Netrunner2 (or Mystic?)
  By: g00r00 to Rob Swindell on Sun May 17 2020 10:45 pm

 >  RS> I have netrunner2 beta 18 which seems to still the latest available for
 >  RS> download from http://mysticbbs.com/downloads.html. Is there some other
 >  RS> download location for beta 19?
 >
 > Yes, and I don't know why but for whatever reason I just haven't updated the
 > webpage for NetRunner in the past couple of years.
 >
 > You can get beta 19 at http://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads/prealpha/ there
 > should be nr*.* files for Linux and Windows.
 >
 > I don't know when I switched over to whatever Mystic is using now but at one
 > point Mystic's mouse was different than whatever it is doing now.  Beta 19
 > would be the best bet.  I'll have to get around to updating the website too.

Well I confirm that beta 19's mouse tracking sequences appear to match what I
would expect (e.g. "esc[M !!" for for an upper-left corner left-button click).
So that's definitely different from beta 18.

Unfortunately, right-click and middle-click don't work (these are used, for
example, in my Minesweeper game). But it's much better.

 >  RS> Yup, that jives with xterm and the "X10 compatibilityi mode" in the
 >  RS> relevant docs I've located.
 >
 >  RS>  > This means its limited to a terminal size
 >  RS>  > of 223x223 though which is something I overlooked at the time.
 >
 >  RS> Which is why the SGR-extended encoding is preferred. You can combine
 >  RS> SGR-extended encoding (esc[?1006h) with the other mouse protocol modes.
 >
 > Makes sense.  At the time I don't think 233x233 was even on my radar so I
 > just used whatever Putty was sending out for compatibility.
 >
 > These days my screen IO library supports up to 65535 x 65535 (obviously
 > untested lol) so I am not opposed to changing the mouse mode it uses to be
 > more compatible.

Cool. Another thing I noticed in Netrunner2, the num pad keys always send the
digits, never the cursor control (home/end/up/down/left/right) sequences,
regardless of the NumLock status. Just thought I'd mention it,

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