[Nel] proposed control changes

Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:41:25 +0200

Hi,
+
+Dan Erikson wrote:
+> 
+> I've put together a patch that changes the mouse control in snowballs so
+> that the mouse is normally free, and you have to click on the window
+> and move the mouse in order to move the view around.  This is a change
+> from the current behavior where the mouse is always locked by the
+> application.  This allows one to use other applications while the game
+> is running.  I've even used it to have two instances of snowball running at
+> the same time, which should be useful for testing reasons.  It'll also alow
+> for using the mouse in the future for clicking on controls on other parts of
+> the screen.  The only thing I'm not sure about is how well it will work on
+> windows.  It looks like it'll work, but it would be nice if someone 
+> would test it.
+
+Nice :-)
+
+I'm going to take a look on that next week and i will test it on windows
+before to integrate the patch. I will keep you inform of the results :-)
+
+> I used the right mouse button because the left mouse button is already 
+> in use
+> for throwing a snowball, but I think these changes to the controls would
+> work better:
+> [...]
+
+The control configuration is a very personal thing, we choose a quite common
+way to configure the moves control ... but it wiil be nice to be able to
+easly configure them :-)
+
+I do agree with you on the Function keys and the ability to be able to use
+the other keys of the keyboard ... migth be nice to have ;-)
+
+
+Thanks for your help,
+
+Cedric.
+
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+