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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*/

#ifndef VK_0
#define VK_0	'0'
#define VK_1	'1'
#define VK_2	'2'
#define VK_3	'3'
#define VK_4	'4'
#define VK_5	'5'
#define VK_6	'6'
#define VK_7	'7'
#define VK_8	'8'
#define VK_9	'9'
#define VK_A	'A'
#define VK_B	'B'
#define VK_C	'C'
#define VK_D	'D'
#define VK_E	'E'
#define VK_F	'F'
#define VK_G	'G'
#define VK_H	'H'
#define VK_I	'I'
#define VK_J	'J'
#define VK_K	'K'
#define VK_L	'L'
#define VK_M	'M'
#define VK_N	'N'
#define VK_O	'O'
#define VK_P	'P'
#define VK_Q	'Q'
#define VK_R	'R'
#define VK_S	'S'
#define VK_T	'T'
#define VK_U	'U'
#define VK_V	'V'
#define VK_W	'W'
#define VK_X	'X'
#define VK_Y	'Y'
#define VK_Z	'Z'
#endif /* VK_0 */

/* These keys haven't been defined, but were experimentally determined */
#define VK_SEMICOLON	0xBA
#define VK_EQUALS	0xBB
#define VK_COMMA	0xBC
#define VK_MINUS	0xBD
#define VK_PERIOD	0xBE
#define VK_SLASH	0xBF
#define VK_GRAVE	0xC0
#define VK_LBRACKET	0xDB
#define VK_BACKSLASH	0xDC
#define VK_RBRACKET	0xDD
#define VK_APOSTROPHE	0xDE
#define VK_BACKTICK	0xDF
#define VK_OEM_102	0xE2