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.

/*
    SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Sam Lantinga

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    Sam Lantinga
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*/
#include "SDL_config.h"

/* This is the system specific header for the SDL CD-ROM API */

/* Structure of CD audio control functions */
extern struct CDcaps {
	/* Get the name of the specified drive */
	const char *(*Name)(int drive);

	/* Open the specified drive, returning a drive id, or -1 on error */
	int (*Open)(int drive);

	/* Get table-of-contents (number of tracks + track info) for disk.
	   The TOC information should be stored in the cdrom structure.
	   This function should return 0 on success, or -1 on error.
	 */
	int (*GetTOC)(SDL_CD *cdrom);

	/* Return the current status and play position, in frames, of the
	   drive.  'position' may be NULL, and if so, should be ignored.
	 */
	CDstatus (*Status)(SDL_CD *cdrom, int *position);

	/* Play from frame 'start' to 'start+len' */
	int (*Play)(SDL_CD *cdrom, int start, int len); 

	/* Pause play */
	int (*Pause)(SDL_CD *cdrom);

	/* Resume play */
	int (*Resume)(SDL_CD *cdrom);

	/* Stop play */
	int (*Stop)(SDL_CD *cdrom);

	/* Eject the current disk */
	int (*Eject)(SDL_CD *cdrom);

	/* Close the specified drive */
	void (*Close)(SDL_CD *cdrom);
} SDL_CDcaps;

/* The number of available CD-ROM drives on the system */
extern int SDL_numcds;

/* Function to scan the system for CD-ROM drives and fill SDL_CDcaps.
 * This function should set SDL_numcds to the number of available CD
 * drives.  Drive 0 should be the system default CD-ROM.
 * It should return 0, or -1 on an unrecoverable fatal error.
*/
extern int  SDL_SYS_CDInit(void);

/* Function to perform any system-specific CD-ROM related cleanup */
extern void SDL_SYS_CDQuit(void);