[Project] Add mouse support to all UI windows (where it is appropriate)

[leemuar]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Mouse is a very powerful tool, it increases usability, accessibility and generally could make things a lot easier for many players. Hovering, clicking, dragging are very natural actions for modern players, we should definitely utilize it

I want to continue a great work of dseguin by adding mouse support to as many UI windows as I possibly can. This includes wheel scrolling, mouse hovers, mouse clicks and maybe even drag-n-drops.

This will be a project issue, to group all related issues together

Important: mouse features should not make UI unusable for people with no mouse or old PC. Backward compatibility with old computers is an important feature, adding mouse should not break it

Solution you would like.

Add mouse support to all UI windows. The to-do list will grow:

TO DO

• Player info (@) Character sheet mouse support #64819
• ? Keybindings
• Move mods up and down in world creation menu using only mouse
• Achievements ())
• Attach gun modifications (a->gun modification->Select gun)
• Active world mods (Esc->Active world mods)
• AIM (/)
• Auto notes manager (Esc->Auto notes manager)
• Auto pickup manager (Esc->Auto pickup manager)
• Base camp (e->Bulletin board)
• Bionics (p)
• Body status (@->s)
• Compare (I->Select two items)
• Construction (*)
• Dialogue (e->NPC->Talk)
• Diary (unbound by default)
• Distraction manager (Esc->Distraction manager)
• Examine vehicle (e->vehicle)
• Factions (#)
• Medical (N)
• Mutations ([)
• Options (Esc->Options)
• Proficiencies (@->p)
• Safe mode manager (Esc->Safe mode manager)
• Sort armor (+)
• View items/monsters (V)
• [ZeroInternalReflection](Scrollbar dragging batch two #60953)

DONE

• M Missions menu : switch tabs by clicking on the tab
  Add mouse support to a mission menu (M) #60083
• & Crafting menu
  Crafting menu mouse support #59856
• 0 Help menu: scrolling with mouse wheel
  Add mouse scrolling to all scrollable_text() windows (help, NPC epilogue, faction epilogue, some NPC talk) #58145
• P Message Log : scrolling with mouse wheel
  Add mouse up and down scrolling to message log window (P by default) #58124
• ) Achievements: scrolling with mouse wheel
  Add vertical mouse scrolling to achievement UI window #58127
• Low level drag-n-drop support
  Make low-level drag-n-drop possible through input_manager #58214 58214

Describe alternatives you have considered.

No response

Additional context

• dseguin showed some examples on how to use mouse in UI elements: Main menu overhaul (Part 1): Mouse controls + Vertical submenus #57764
• mqrause is working on new UI framework to ease UI handling: Generic UI Framework - basic implementation #56126
• Important discussion of usability and current UI problems: UI Improvement - Scrolling / Paging #44152
• UI list as a generic element building block: [CR] Generic ui - list view #56026
• Main menu overhaul (Part 1.5): mouse control fixes & improvements #58142

[ZeroInternalReflection]

I've been making my own notes on UI consistency (raised on Discord, but not yet formalized in any issues). Since you mentioned the to-do list growing, here are some of the screens that I've identified as not currently having any mouse support in tiles:

• Achievements ())
• Attach gun modifications (a->gun modification->Select gun)
• Active world mods (Esc->Active world mods)
• AIM (/)
• Auto notes manager (Esc->Auto notes manager)
• Auto pickup manager (Esc->Auto pickup manager)
• Base camp (e->Bulletin board)
• Bionics (p)
• Body status (@->s)
• Compare (I->Select two items)
• Construction (*)
• Dialogue (e->NPC->Talk)
• Diary (unbound by default)
• Examine vehicle (e->vehicle)
• Factions (#)
• Medical (N)
• Mutations ([)
• Options (Esc->Options)
• Player info (@)
• Proficiencies (@->p)
• Safe mode manager (Esc->Safe mode manager)
• Sort armor (+)
• View items/monsters (V)

This game has a lot of different UI screens.
Mouse support in curses is of course, a more complicated issue. Though it does work on the fire screen...

[Night-Pryanik]

Regarding your question in #58454:

What UI window is this? i Inventory? /Extended Inventory?

inventory. Imagine you have a lighter stored somewhere deep in your backpack, and you want to move it somewhere closer, e.g. in pocket of your pants. You click on the lighter, drag it to the pants, and then release LMB. Et voila, lighter is moved from backpack to your pants (if there's enough free space for it, of course).

[Night-Pryanik]

Drag-and-drop could also be used to use the scrollbar.

[Night-Pryanik]

Drag-and-drop could also be used to sort armor in Sort Armor menu.

[leemuar]

Utility code got finally merged, now the real work begins

[leemuar]

ZeroInternalReflection added drag support for scrollbars: #60953

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[Brambor]

• ? Keybindings

Solved by #64632