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Subject: Re: [9front] Mouse clipping patch
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> 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.