Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Mouse patch

[David L. <dav...@nt...>]

Melchior FRANZ writes:

> * David Luff -- Friday 17 February 2006 00:27:
> > I do recall that on Cygwin (glut) builds I used to see unpredicable 
> > view behaviour when the mouse wrapped, that I've never seen on Linux 
> > (SDL) builds where the mouse has always wrapped with no problem or
> > view jump. 
> 
> The jumps were always there in SDL. I got used to them -- only David's
> remark reminded me that this should really get fixed. 

I never had (noticed) any jumps with the old code (SDL), but the new patch was jumping all over the place when it didn't crash.  I'm not disputing that there were problems that needed fixing though, since I did see some wierd stuff on Cygwin builds IIRC.

>If the new code
> causes crashes then we should try to find the reason. Reverting the
> input.cxx change only hides the true cause. Any useful backtrace on
> that? ("killed" doesn't tell me anything.)   :-/ 
>

I know, I know, but I don't have a -g version handy at the moment.  Recompile probably won't finish tonight...

Cheers - Dave