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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 | 429c8dd3175d |
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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 */ #include "SDL_config.h" /* Useful functions and variables from SDL_events.c */ #include "SDL_events.h" /* Start and stop the event processing loop */ extern int SDL_StartEventLoop(Uint32 flags); extern void SDL_StopEventLoop(void); extern void SDL_QuitInterrupt(void); extern void SDL_Lock_EventThread(void); extern void SDL_Unlock_EventThread(void); extern Uint32 SDL_EventThreadID(void); /* Event handler init routines */ extern int SDL_AppActiveInit(void); extern int SDL_KeyboardInit(void); extern int SDL_MouseInit(void); extern int SDL_QuitInit(void); /* Event handler quit routines */ extern void SDL_AppActiveQuit(void); extern void SDL_KeyboardQuit(void); extern void SDL_MouseQuit(void); extern void SDL_QuitQuit(void); /* The event filter function */ extern SDL_EventFilter SDL_EventOK; /* The array of event processing states */ extern Uint8 SDL_ProcessEvents[SDL_NUMEVENTS]; /* Internal event queueing functions (from SDL_active.c, SDL_mouse.c, SDL_keyboard.c, SDL_quit.c, SDL_events.c) */ extern int SDL_PrivateAppActive(Uint8 gain, Uint8 state); extern int SDL_PrivateMouseMotion(Uint8 buttonstate, int relative, Sint16 x, Sint16 y); extern int SDL_PrivateMouseButton(Uint8 state, Uint8 button,Sint16 x,Sint16 y); extern int SDL_PrivateKeyboard(Uint8 state, SDL_keysym *key); extern int SDL_PrivateResize(int w, int h); extern int SDL_PrivateExpose(void); extern int SDL_PrivateQuit(void); extern int SDL_PrivateSysWMEvent(SDL_SysWMmsg *message); /* Used by the activity event handler to remove mouse focus */ extern void SDL_ResetMouse(void); /* Used by the activity event handler to remove keyboard focus */ extern void SDL_ResetKeyboard(void); /* Used by the event loop to queue pending keyboard repeat events */ extern void SDL_CheckKeyRepeat(void); /* Used by the OS keyboard code to detect whether or not to do UNICODE */ #ifndef DEFAULT_UNICODE_TRANSLATION #define DEFAULT_UNICODE_TRANSLATION 0 /* Default off because of overhead */ #endif extern int SDL_TranslateUNICODE;