From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Mouse clipping patch
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:40:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XOQtaNHEQGFago65D6tHsKB+cBQC=oxuYV6YN4DHx3wdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F9498857FC86D3FBEDD894523553B15@eigenstate.org>
> Mentioned elsewhere -- but what if instead of this,
> we did a "raw" or "relative" command, which did two
> things:
>
> 1. Made mouse updates provide deltas from the
> previous position.
> 2. Disabled automatic cursor position updates.
>
> This would mean that an application which requested
> relative motion commands would be responsible for
> warping the cursor to where it wanted it to be.
>
> That would allow the application to emulate clipping,
> but would also be what games want, allowing infinite
> side scrolling (for example).
>
>
all this complexity would have only a slight benefit: a bigger maximum
mouse speed. as right now per mouse event we can already move
maximally by as many pixels as the screen has space... for most
fast-paced games this should suffice already.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-15 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-12 19:50 José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 2:36 ` ori
2021-07-13 2:45 ` ori
2021-07-13 14:03 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-11 0:56 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-13 3:14 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 8:25 ` hiro
2021-07-13 10:27 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 14:05 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-13 15:27 ` kvik
2021-07-13 16:28 ` ori
[not found] ` <CAFSF3XPhDeKiKXdsL0Abnderm45Uc2GCPYsi6ygSaBkf7gDBmA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-13 15:09 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 15:34 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-14 12:04 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-15 2:06 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2021-07-13 15:11 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-13 16:16 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 16:27 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-13 17:42 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 21:20 ` hiro
2021-07-13 21:57 ` ori
2021-07-14 11:55 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-13 17:26 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2021-07-13 17:45 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-13 18:29 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 21:32 ` hiro
2021-07-13 21:22 ` Benjamin Purcell
2021-07-13 16:21 ` hiro
2021-07-13 16:29 ` ori
2021-07-14 8:42 ` hiro
2021-07-14 11:52 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-07-14 12:17 ` hiro
2021-07-15 3:13 ` ori
2021-07-14 12:53 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-15 7:36 ` hiro
2021-07-14 14:26 ` ori
2021-07-13 12:00 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-07-13 12:43 ` kvik
2021-07-13 13:36 ` hiro
2021-07-13 13:40 ` hiro
2021-07-14 22:57 ` ori
2021-07-15 7:40 ` hiro [this message]
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