Rare Mouse behaviour

[Guilect]

I have made changes to the mouse.hide and mouse.show routines. The results are good.

[u9]

admin said:

some error in the mapping of the coordinates

The co-ordinates are shifted the height of the titlebar.

This is not entirely true is it? If I move the mouse in the other direction, e.g. upwards, when i set it to x, -1 it is positioned 1 pixel above the drawing surface, not the screen title window. This is getting a bit confusing i think hehe

admin said:

We had decided that the entire window should be 640x480. As it is now.

Maybe a note stating thta setmouse is a fullscreen only command is applicable.

Then yeah, mouse.setposxy is only really usable in fullscreen. This renders my previous solution a bit invalid. It did however work in v1.7, but i noticed when i compiled it the coordinates got shifted.

Back to the mouse.capture i guess

EDIT: Ah, the mouse.dx and dy can probably still be used to see if the mouse has left the window.

[transdiv]

transdiv, here is an example of how you can do it. I figured that in games one usually changes the mouse pointer anyway, so i just grabbed the real mouse and simulate one when it is inside the window and "set it free" when it goes outside the window. Try the code below If you like it and want to use something like this I can simplify it a lot for you. Just let me know.

Yeps; Nice workaround, works like a charm; Maybe in the future, it would be nice to have one mouse property like this :

Mouse.InAppWindow

That would return True or False depending on the mouse position.

[u9]

Hey transdiv.

I have made the code into an easy to use class that you can use as if it was the original mouse object provided by Brutus2D. It has all the methods and properties of the original mouse object. It also ignores events if the window doesn't have focus, so clicks that are intended for other applications are not received by your game. I even made a Mouse.InWindow property "for you."

See GDN's documentation page for more details.

And by all means, do let me know what you think and if there are any problems with it

[hartnell]

Disclosure : I didn't read the entire thread. But here's my two cents.

FreeBASIC does it this way :

If the mouse cursor is out of the game window, then mouse_x and mouse_y = -1

Very handy.

-hartnell