Mouse click events can't handle > 223 rows/columns about termbox-go HOT 3 CLOSED

Windows has no problems in that area for sure, there are no terminal emulators of any kind involved. I agree that the limit is probably ok, but if we can resolve that somehow propely, we will. I'm busy with other stuff, so I'm not promising anything soon (except I can add the docs about the limitation).

from termbox-go.

AFAICT, to "solve" the problem termbox would either have to do one of:

• set up the terminal to use a different mode then X10
  • (disadvantage) might drop compatibility, or require multiple chunks of code for each supported mode
  • (disadvantage) might require other parts of the event system to be re-written
  • (advantage) could allow other mouse events (mouse move, button down+up)
• set up the terminal to use utf-8 encoding
  • (disadvantage) again might affect other events
  • (disadvantage) limit is only raised to 2014(2047-33), but that is probably enough
  • (disadvantage) if the switch to utf-8 doesn't happen on the terminal side, aside from other issues, the limit is now 94 (127-33), because utf-8 only == ascii when < 128
  • (advantage) changes could be as simple as using []rune instead of []byte
• use one of the other encodings (similar [dis]advantages to utf-8)

I might explore the utf-8 option myself, since all the affected systems (where go is supported) should be recent enough to support utf-8 properly, but don't expect a pull request, as I know very little about both termbox and terminal programming to deal with non-trivial problems, and may just give up.

from termbox-go.

Termbox uses xterm and urxvt extended modes now if terminal can handle them. Which overcomes this limitation, but it won't work everywhere. To see how exactly your terminal reports mouse coordinates use _demos/raw_input.go. If you see something like: "\x1b[<0;76;32m", then it's the xterm extended mode. Urxvt one looks similar, it doesn't have a "<" character in the message, e.g.: "\x1b[35;76;32m". X10 mode starts with "\x1b[M".

See commit: 4aa457c414d0392fb8981c975a0b

from termbox-go.