> That might be the screen updating every time you move the mouse. You > probably have a 64bit ncurses with NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2 (or > greater?).
I run 32-bit ncurses (i686). > If you try defining NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION to 1, you'll get what I have > in my netbook: fast mouse selection without screen updates > (REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION simply does not fit in the mouse mask, yet > another example of why ncurses sucks). Thanks I'll give that a try.