Re: [AD] Platform specific functions in A5 [was Re: Windows Addition for Message Parsing]

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ok, we are kinda understanding each other now. That's quite better.

I don't think there was any misunderstanding at all.
Well, maybe there was if you thought there was one. Anyway.

> So if multiple mice support is to be implemented on allegro, the way
> for doing it in windows would be as done in rawmouse. However we are
> not sure how it would be implemented on other platforms.
>
> MPX seems to be not implemented as of yet as a xorg default thing as
> far as we could see, so no clue on how to do the implementation for
> X11 or OSX.

I don't think that's a problem. As I understand, the event system  
could support it with little or no modification, other parts of the  
current API could use thread local storage to keep track of what is  
considered to be the "current" mouse. All this changes is to add two  
functions for "al_get_number_of_mice" and "al_set_current_mouse" to  
the API. Internally it would be more work, but that can mostly be  
deferred to a point where we do know how to implement it, or have  
time to implement it. All that needs to be worked out is what vtable  
functions to add and have them default to do "nothing" (so we just  
have one mouse) on all platforms, as we do now.

Evert