Re: Re: mouse cursor problems

Nadav Frum wrote:
>>In theory it is possible with DGA - however that's a huge piece of crap
>>that I wouldn't touch with a 200 meter pole.
>>
>>Quite some time ago (2002 I think) I talked to several of the XFree86
>>developers (now they are freedesktop.org developers) about it, and they
>>do agree that an extension is needed - however they believe that it is
>>not worth creating an extension just for this purpose - and think it
>>wouldbe better to create an X extension that provides all sorts of 
>>new input functionality.
>>
>>Of course, I haven't looked into this since then (and then it was only
>>a cursory look), so something may be available of which I am not aware.
> 
> 
> Now I am totally confused.  The unnecessary warping is IMO easy to fix in 
> the present context.  Several known games require this fix to function.  
> You say you have been aware of this problem for years.  You (TG) are not 
> actively pursuing the XFree route.  What are you (TG) waiting for then? 

We've been aware of a range of input related issues for years, and have
been working to resolve them one by one, as we've worked on individual
games.

While we considered an XFree extension at one point, the process required
to get that in seemed like it would be slow, and would not fulfill the
immediate needs that we had to deal with certain aspects of the problem.

A look at
  http://cvs.transgaming.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/winex/dlls/dinput/mouse/main.c
will show that we've far from ignored dinput problems, with dozens of commits
to address various issues.

This issue that has come up recently is in part a regression, and in
part is touching areas of the dinput code that we simply haven't looked
at in some time.  It sounds like you and Ove are well on a way to a
fix that makes sense, so with luck we can see this fully addressed
soon.

Take care,
  -Gav

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