Re: [Pipmak-Devel] About the mouse un-grabbing in Pipmak
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Re: [Pipmak-Devel] About the mouse un-grabbing in Pipmak
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From: Aidan G. <wgs...@ih...> - 2008-01-02 01:53:33
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<pre wrap="">Hello Aidan
Thanks for looking into this problem!
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<pre wrap="">I have managed write a patch for Pipmak that
removes the code for releasing the mouse based on mouse motion events,
and adds a Lua function that releases the mouse when called. It also
makes the "G" key a key-binding for this new Lua function in the
"defaults.lua" file.
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Hmm. I'm not too happy with that solution, to be honest. How are users
supposed to find that out?
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Well, I knew that the node with the list of key-bindings would have to
be updated.<br>
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<pre wrap="">And for those that automatic ungrabbing works (like me), wouldn't it be
better to have it continue to just work, rather than forcing them to go
to the keyboard every time?
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<pre wrap="">Not only does this solve my problem with Pipmak not giving
my mouse back, so I can get back to my other programs, but I also think
it might be more portable across different window managers, than the
current behaviour of Pipmak.
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Have you tried basing the ungrabbing on the actual speed of the mouse
(i.e. taking timing into account), rather than just the pixel delta as
it is currently done? That's what would seem the proper solution to me.
Or as a more general question, what are your usual pixel deltas when you
slam the mouse against the window edge?
Another solution may be to ungrab when the unclamped mouse position has
gone a certain distance outside the window, so speed wouldn't matter
(but we'd still have the edge resistance that is necessary to reach the
edge on Windows and X11).
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These both sound like great ideas, but I am by no means an experienced
C programmer, and I don't have a very good SDL reference (I only have
the SDL man pages), so could you please point me in the direction of a
detailed SDL reference, or tell me how to get the coordinates for the
unclamped mouse from within Pipmak.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> Is anyone else interested in this patch, and if so, how should I submit
this as a contribution to the Pipmak project?
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Please post it either to this mailing list, or to the patch tracker at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=112801&atid=663294"><http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=112801&atid=663294></a>.
-Christian
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I will attach the patch I have made, to this message, as a quick fix
for people having this problem, but I would like to continue working on
improving Pipmak's current behaviour.<br>
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