Re: [AD] position_mouse failure on Mac OSX 10.4.2

[Peter Hull <peter.hull90@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dustin,

Is this in both windowed and non-windowed modes?
Have you got any example code that shows the weird and funky things?

It looks like you are right (at least SDL uses that function too) so I will prepare a patch.

Pete

> 
> From: Dustin Dettmer <dustin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/11/23 Wed AM 07:08:44 GMT
> To: alleg-developers <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AD] position_mouse failure on Mac OSX 10.4.2
> 
> position_mouse didn't seem to work for me, it did
> weird funky things. After talking with some Mac
> developers the function being used inside of
> osx_mouse_position:
> 
> CGDisplayMoveCursorToPoint(kCGDirectMainDisplay,
> point);
> 
> aparently isn't what you're supposed to do. Instead
> you're supposed to use this:
> 
> CGSetLocalEventsSuppressionInterval(0);
> CGWarpMouseCursorPosition(point);
> 
> The code earlier in the function that translates the
> window coordinates to global coordinates is still
> correct for this new function.
> 
> In practice i noticed that this new osx_position_mouse
> function could not be called in tight loops as it
> seemed to mess up the click registering and was
> seemingly time intensive. This might be solved by
> putting CGSetLocalEventsSuppressionInterval(0) in the
> init code instead. If not, maybe the docs should
> mention to not do that.
> 
> http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=547091
> 
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