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Can't bind mouse moves

by Vijay Myneni · in RTS Starter Kit · 11/20/2004 (1:43 am) · 4 replies

Hello,

I can't seem to map the mouse axes to anything. Commands like

moveMap.bind(mouse0, "xaxis", yaw);

don't seem to call the callback ("yaw" in this case) when I move the mouse around.

Is this because movement is being overriddden for the sake of RTS functionality like edge-scrolling and click-drag selection? How can I get the binding functionality back? I'm trying to implement a godcam that I can control using mouse movement. (The wheel, "zaxis", works, as demonstrated in starter.rts, but no other axis works).

Thanks,
Vijay
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Torque 3D Owner Martin "Founder" Hoover
#1
11/20/2004 (7:23 am)
Are you including the binds in the config.cs files? I noticed that when I only put the bind in default.bind.cs that it didn't work, and I had to include it in config.cs (there are two of these files, one in starter.rts/client and starter.rts/client/scripts/client/ not sure why).

Torque Owner Vijay Myneni
#2
11/20/2004 (8:12 am)
Ya, I've done that. In general, I can get binds to work. I can bind the functions I've written to any key, or the mouse z-axis, and it works great. It just doesn't work if I try to use the mouse x-axis or y-axis. It's really strange.

Torque Owner Vijay Myneni
#3
11/20/2004 (8:57 am)
Nevermind, I figured it out. I hunted through the code and apparently the canvas captures mouse move events if the cursor is on and handles them so that they never get passed to the bindings.

Thanks.

Torque Owner Josh Williams
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#4
11/20/2004 (5:59 pm)
Vijay, thanks for pointing this out to people. We should've documented this fact better.