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Fixed bug #611
From Tim Angus 2008-08-12 11:18:06
I'm one of the maintainers of ioquake3.org, an updated version of the
Quake 3 engine. Relatively recently, we moved ioq3 to use SDL as a
replacement for 95% of the platform specific code that was there. On the
whole it's doing a great job but unfortunately since the move we've been
getting complaints about the quality of the mouse input on the Windows
platform to the point where for many the game is unplayable. Put in
other terms, the current stable SDL 1.2 is basically not fit for purpose
if you need high quality mouse input as you do in a first person shooter.
Over the weekend I decided to pull my finger out and actually figure out
what's going on. There are basically two major problems. Firstly, when
using the "windib" driver, mouse input is gathered via the WM_MOUSEMOVE
message. Googling for this indicates that often this is known to result
in "spurious" and/or "missing" mouse movement events; this is the
primary cause of the poor mouse input. The second problem is that the
"directx" driver does not work at all in combination with OpenGL meaning
that you can't use DirectInput if your application also uses OpenGL. In
other words you're locked into using the "windib" driver and its poor
mouse input.
In order to address these problems I've done the following:
* Remove WM_MOUSEMOVE based motion event generation and replace with
calls to GetCursorPos which seems much more reliable. In order to
achieve this I've moved mouse motion out into a separate function that
is called once per DIB_PumpEvents.
* Remove the restriction on the "directx" driver being inoperable in
combination with OpenGL. There is a bug for this issues that I've
hijacked to a certain extent
(http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265). I'm the first to admit
I don't really understand why this restriction is there in the first
place. The commit message for the bug fix that introduced this
restriction (r581) isn't very elaborate and I couldn't see any other bug
tracking the issue. If anyone has more information on the bug that was
avoided by r581 it would be helpful as I/someone could then look into
addressing the problem without disabling the "directx" driver.
* I've also removed the restriction on not being allowed to use
DirectInput in windowed mode. I couldn't see any reason for this, at
least not from our perspective. I have my suspicions that it'll be
something like matching up the cursor with the mouse coordinates...
* I bumped up the DirectInput API used to version 7 in order to get
access to mouse buttons 4-7. I've had to inject a little bit of the DX7
headers into SDL there as the MinGW ones aren't up to date in this respect.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:43:36 +0000 |
parents | a1b03ba2fcd0 |
children | 4c4113c2162c |
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/* SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Sam Lantinga This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Sam Lantinga slouken@libsdl.org */ #ifndef _SDL_mutex_h #define _SDL_mutex_h /* Functions to provide thread synchronization primitives These are independent of the other SDL routines. */ #include "SDL_stdinc.h" #include "SDL_error.h" #include "begin_code.h" /* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* Synchronization functions which can time out return this value if they time out. */ #define SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT 1 /* This is the timeout value which corresponds to never time out */ #define SDL_MUTEX_MAXWAIT (~(Uint32)0) /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Mutex functions */ /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* The SDL mutex structure, defined in SDL_mutex.c */ struct SDL_mutex; typedef struct SDL_mutex SDL_mutex; /* Create a mutex, initialized unlocked */ extern DECLSPEC SDL_mutex * SDLCALL SDL_CreateMutex(void); /* Lock the mutex (Returns 0, or -1 on error) */ #define SDL_LockMutex(m) SDL_mutexP(m) extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_mutexP(SDL_mutex *mutex); /* Unlock the mutex (Returns 0, or -1 on error) It is an error to unlock a mutex that has not been locked by the current thread, and doing so results in undefined behavior. */ #define SDL_UnlockMutex(m) SDL_mutexV(m) extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_mutexV(SDL_mutex *mutex); /* Destroy a mutex */ extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DestroyMutex(SDL_mutex *mutex); /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Semaphore functions */ /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* The SDL semaphore structure, defined in SDL_sem.c */ struct SDL_semaphore; typedef struct SDL_semaphore SDL_sem; /* Create a semaphore, initialized with value, returns NULL on failure. */ extern DECLSPEC SDL_sem * SDLCALL SDL_CreateSemaphore(Uint32 initial_value); /* Destroy a semaphore */ extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DestroySemaphore(SDL_sem *sem); /* This function suspends the calling thread until the semaphore pointed * to by sem has a positive count. It then atomically decreases the semaphore * count. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemWait(SDL_sem *sem); /* Non-blocking variant of SDL_SemWait(), returns 0 if the wait succeeds, SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT if the wait would block, and -1 on error. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemTryWait(SDL_sem *sem); /* Variant of SDL_SemWait() with a timeout in milliseconds, returns 0 if the wait succeeds, SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT if the wait does not succeed in the allotted time, and -1 on error. On some platforms this function is implemented by looping with a delay of 1 ms, and so should be avoided if possible. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemWaitTimeout(SDL_sem *sem, Uint32 ms); /* Atomically increases the semaphore's count (not blocking), returns 0, or -1 on error. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemPost(SDL_sem *sem); /* Returns the current count of the semaphore */ extern DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_SemValue(SDL_sem *sem); /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Condition variable functions */ /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* The SDL condition variable structure, defined in SDL_cond.c */ struct SDL_cond; typedef struct SDL_cond SDL_cond; /* Create a condition variable */ extern DECLSPEC SDL_cond * SDLCALL SDL_CreateCond(void); /* Destroy a condition variable */ extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DestroyCond(SDL_cond *cond); /* Restart one of the threads that are waiting on the condition variable, returns 0 or -1 on error. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondSignal(SDL_cond *cond); /* Restart all threads that are waiting on the condition variable, returns 0 or -1 on error. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondBroadcast(SDL_cond *cond); /* Wait on the condition variable, unlocking the provided mutex. The mutex must be locked before entering this function! The mutex is re-locked once the condition variable is signaled. Returns 0 when it is signaled, or -1 on error. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondWait(SDL_cond *cond, SDL_mutex *mut); /* Waits for at most 'ms' milliseconds, and returns 0 if the condition variable is signaled, SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT if the condition is not signaled in the allotted time, and -1 on error. On some platforms this function is implemented by looping with a delay of 1 ms, and so should be avoided if possible. */ extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondWaitTimeout(SDL_cond *cond, SDL_mutex *mutex, Uint32 ms); /* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */ #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #include "close_code.h" #endif /* _SDL_mutex_h */