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Mouse Binding Problems

by MrPhil (Philip Ludington) · in Torque Game Builder · 02/27/2005 (11:04 pm) · 23 replies

So its 1:55 AM and I'm going to bed. Hopefully someone can solve my problem while I rest and I'm might have missed something obvious (tired) and if so I apologize. Here's my code and only the handleMouseWheel event seems to be working!?!? Did I get the names of the other events wrong? (Where is that info. anyway? I had to scratch through the forums for a while to find all these.)

// Create a new action map.
	new ActionMap(playerMap);

	// Bind keys to actions.
	playerMap.bind( mouse, "zaxis", handleMouseWheel );
	playerMap.bind( mouse, "yaxis", handleMouseY );
	playerMap.bind( mouse, "xaxis", handleMouseX );
	playerMap.bindCmd( mouse, "button0", "handleMousePickDown();", "handleMousePickUp();"  );
	
	// Activate the action map.
	playerMap.push();
	
	echo( "setupT2DScene complete." );
}
function handleMouseWheel( %val )
{   
	echo( "MouseWheel" SPC %val );
}

function handleMouseY( %val )
{
	echo( "MouseY" SPC %val );
	$MouseY = %val;
}
function handleMouseX( %val )
{
	echo( "MouseX" SPC %val );
	$MouseX = %val;
}
function handleMousePickDown()
{
	%position = $MouseX SPC $MouseY;
	
	echo( %position );
}

Edit: Fixed a bunch of typos in the code.
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    Torque Owner Pavel Tovarys
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    #21
    09/04/2006 (2:14 pm)
    Hmm, I'm not sure why, but I rewrite my code with your code (but the code was the same, only different function names) and it works now. Great, thanks!

    Torque Owner Vern Jensen
    #22
    09/04/2006 (11:07 pm)
    Edward --

    Thanks so much for the code! Exactly what I've been trying to do for a while, unsuccessfully, and you're the first to provide a solution.

    One thing though. I start the game by pushing the run arrow button in TGB. And even though I move the mouse in tiny small increments, I get starting values like:

    XAXIS: -537
    YAXIS: -485
    YAXIS: 1
    XAXIS: 1
    (similar small values from here on out)

    My guess is that the mouse is being re-centered in the middle of the screen each frame, but this re-centering does NOT happen before the first xaxis and yaxis values are spit out. How can I avoid this initial jump? I tried adding this to your code:

    sceneWindow2D.setMousePosition("0 0");

    but it didnt' help. Suggestions? (This is 1.1.1 on a Mac.)

    Associate Edward F. Maurina III
    Roaming Gamer LLC
    #23
    09/05/2006 (5:39 pm)
    @Vern

    Hi. You're welcome, although I think the folks who have been posting on the GPGT forum are going to get mad at me soon for helping elswhere when I should be responding to their posts. :|

    I've been thinking about the problem you're experiencing and haven't come up with any reasons why you are seeing this behavior.

    Be aware, this kind of mouse movement [tracking] is not relative to any cursor position, so you don't need to move the cursor back to <0,0>. Also be aware, that the mouse only gives inputs that are positive or negative, but not zero. i.e. With a mouse ( and bind() ) there is no 'break' concept.

    As to why you would be seeing such large (in magnitude) values ... I'm stumped, especially if your mouse works for other apps just fine.

    I think you're going to need to instrument the C++ code to figure this one out. Sorry I can't be of more help here.

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