[Nel] proposed control changes
Cedric Valignat
valignat@nevrax.com
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.