Re: [AD] mouse movement

[Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> An alternative, which may be quite neat if we can implement this properly, is to be able to register the
> mouse as a "generic input device" rather than a mouse. The rationale being 
that if you're using the mouse
> to control a camera (to stick with that example), then you're really using it 
as a generic input device
> more than a mouse.

I've been thinking some more about all this and I've concluded that this is the 
best thing to do.

A flag ALLEGRO_MOUSE_GENERIC_INPUT could be passed to al_install_mouse(), as 
opposed to ALLEGRO_MOUSE_POINTER_INPUT which would be default. This way the user 
could select the desired behavior - getting mouse pointer events or getting raw 
input data from the device. Not all platforms have to support 
ALLEGRO_MOUSE_GENERIC_INPUT and al_install_mouse() could fail there. It is 
implementable on Windows and X11 (using XInput2 I think).

All this will wait for A5.1 or whatever it will be called. For now I'll just 
make the full-screen mode in Windows use conventional (pointer) mouse input, to 
keep it compatible with other platforms.


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