mouse supports in Visual Styles

Hi Riszky -

Visual Styles simply displays the text using a Windows-like style, but does nothing to change the way the program interprets keyboard (or mouse) input. However, AccuTerm does support the mouse, but your program will need to interpret what to do when it receives a mouse click. To enable the mouse, do:

PRINT CHAR(27) : CHAR(2) : '1' :

To disable the mouse, do:

PRINT CHAR(27) : CHAR(2) : '0' :

When the mouse is enabled, if the user clicks any location on the screen, AccuTerm sends a string that resembles a function key followed by the coordinates where the mouse was clicked. The exact format of this string depends on whether you are using one of the VT emulations or not, and is documented in the Programmers Guide which you can download from the Manuals link on the Support page of this site.

Then you need to modify your application so that when it detects the mouse click, it changes the input field to the field the user clicked on.

We are getting ready to publish a library of routines that help simplify this process as well as decoding all typical keyboard commands like function keys, cursor keys, etc. This library also includes a powerful text entry routine that supports single and multi-line text input, cursor keys, etc. Hope to have it posted this week (at least as a beta version).

Thanks,

Pete