[SDL] Incorrect mouse position while pressed some key

[David Olofson]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 00:10, Bob Pendleton wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:41, Sam Lantinga wrote:
> > > What we will do with this?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Compressing mouse motion events is easy, and has been discussed on this
> list many times. The usual complaint is that we are getting to many
> events. OTOH, if you want more precise motion events and the OS won't
> give them to you, you are up that well known creek. Someone, not me, I
> haven't done Windows in a long time, should do a detailed search in the
> MS knowledge base on the subject and try to find a way to turn this
> effect off.
>
> 'cause I think the choices are "turn it off" and "live with it."

Well, I don't think "motion event flooding" is an issue, but rather a 
matter of knowing how to handle motion events correctly. (This is done 
all the time by normal applications and/or the GUI toolkits they use. 
Should be common knowledge.)

So, the *proper* solution IMHO, would be to kill these undesired 
compression features when possible, to ensure consistency across 
platforms, and across mouse button states.

Question is how. (And I generally stay at least a crosscompile away from 
Win32. :-)


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