Re: [AD] mouse mickeys problem

[Robert Jr Ohannessian <rohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any reason why we don't use raw mouse input, under Windows?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/rawinput.asp


Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> On Sunday 11 April 2004 16:05, Elias Pschernig wrote:
>
> > Use position_mouse to set the mouse to the middle of the screen
> > continuously. That way, you can even use mouse_x, mouse_y to get
> > mickeys. Of course, you need to track the cursor position and draw it
> > yourself in that case. And it works better in fullscreen than in
> > windowed mode.
>
>
> Note that doing this doesn't work if you try to run the program through 
> Wine (useful if you're in Linux and people insist on releasing only 
> Windows binaries): the mouse cursor stays fixed very close to the screen 
> centre and you can't use the mouse at all.
> So I would generally recommend against this. It's basically a dirty hack 
> that may cause other problems later on.
>
> Evert
>
>
>
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