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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Allegro conductors" <conductors@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: [AD] About Javier Gonzalez's patch
> Javier Gonzalez recently posted a patch which aims at solving the
> Windows-only 'mouse doesn't move fast enough in hires modes' bug.
> I haven't tested it yet but it seems to actually fix the problem; it does
> that by reproducing the behaviour of the Windows built-in mouse driver:
> using two threshold values to scale up the mickeys by 2 or 4. So the
> consistency with the host OS is enforced.
You have been 1000 times better than me explaining what the patch does. ;)
I've tested it (now for a week) and if works nicely
> What I wonder is whether we shouldn't also take care of the consistency
with
> the others ports of Allegro. The DirectDraw mouse interface is very basic:
> only raw hardware mickeys are returned without taking any speed or
> resolution factor into account, so we have to do the entire job.
> Now on others platforms (DOS and X11 at least, BeOS ?), a significant part
> of this job is performed by the system mouse driver: how are this drivers
> dealing with the screen resolution ? Are they using threshold values too
or
> a global scaling factor based on the resolution ?