Difference between revisions of "Mouse Lock API Points of Interest"

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This page is for tracking different parts of the Firefox code that relate to the mouse in different ways.
 
This page is for tracking different parts of the Firefox code that relate to the mouse in different ways.
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I suggest looking at widget/src/*/nsWindow.cpp for starters. It seems like the OS-Specific mouse stuff is all done in there.
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Try researching in different OS APIs about setting the mouse cursor position directly, it should turn up some interesting results.
  
 
==WIN32 API==
 
==WIN32 API==
 
* [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp#3874 Internal mouse event tracking]
 
* [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp#3874 Internal mouse event tracking]
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Here's some code that actually locks the mouse into a rectangle with no width or height in the center of the screen in WIN32.
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* http://pastebin.com/gNmh1uhz
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* or [http://pastebin.com/3YBfXxM2 http://pastebin.com/3YBfXxM2](requires adding the mMousePos and mMouseLock member variables)

Latest revision as of 14:43, 11 November 2011

This page is for tracking different parts of the Firefox code that relate to the mouse in different ways.

I suggest looking at widget/src/*/nsWindow.cpp for starters. It seems like the OS-Specific mouse stuff is all done in there.

Try researching in different OS APIs about setting the mouse cursor position directly, it should turn up some interesting results.

WIN32 API

Here's some code that actually locks the mouse into a rectangle with no width or height in the center of the screen in WIN32.