Re: [fuse-emulator-devel] [patch] [rfc] Kempston mouse support

[Darren S. <ds...@yo...>]

I demand that Fred may or may not have written...

> Darren Salt wrote:
>> I demand that Fred may or may not have written...
>>> and that even if the windowed mode detection worked,
>> It sort-of works: it returns 0 when Fuse/SDL is run from a vc.

> Well, strictly speaking, SDL/FB et al. are at liberty to return a structure
> for SDL_GetWMInfo in the future AFAICT.

Then we should probably check for things like SDL_SysWMInfo.info.x11.display
== NULL. Or something like that, anyway :-)

>>> I won't have much luck using the middle mouse button to grab and ungrab
>>> the mouse cos there is only one button on Mac :)
>> Yes... but AIUI you have ways of emulating the 'missing' buttons; there
>> should be something which works.

> Correct in general, there are two issues:
> 1) There is no standard mapping for a middle mouse button on OS X full
> stop, and

I'd call that a bug, or at least a significant misfeature.

> 2) SDL apps require this stuff to be handled in the app (e.g.
> input.c:keypress() like the mooted Esc or something key)

Hmm. The something key - we could say that that's next to the any key ;-)

> as on OS X there is no automatic support for any platform-standard key
> shortcuts. I do already implement several of these for Fuse for Mac OS X
> though.

You've got an #ifdef or two to fix up in the attached patch...

>>> and escape ungrabs the mouse?
>> The problem with that particular key is that it's mapped to Caps+1 ;-)

> True, but I think it is a common mapping for ungrabbing the mouse in games
> etc.

Could be. I just haven't come across it before.

[snip]
>>> BTW Mouse motion is smooth with SDL (on OS X at least).
>> Even if you quickly move the mouse? It doesn't necessarily take much
>> movement to cause several counter wraps...

> On my trackpad, I get somewhat jerky movement if I very quickly drag my
> finger across the whole trackpad with Minesweeper. With the Advanced OCP
> Art Studio, there is a mouse sensitivity option - I used 2 and everything
> worked smoothly with normal movement (I didn't try anything too extreme).

That sounds like it's not going to be a major problem...

>> BTW, no need to cc: me...

> The worst thing about Thunderbird is that to reply to a list you have to
> reply-all and then delete all the non-list email addresses :(

Eek. Not much by way of mailing list support? ;-\

> Hopefully they will eventually get a clue about it...

Bug filed?

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