A mouse escape hotkey?

[Alstom1995]

Something just occurred to me. When playing the emulator in a window size the mouse is able to move off of the game screen and accidentally click into anything on windows. Would it be possible in a future version to restrict the mouse into the game window only, and if you want to click out of it then press a specific key? Obviously this only matters when it comes to mouse useage.

[Bart]

I'd just play in fullscreen. This sort of non-standard mouse behavior violates typical expectations users have of mouse behavior.

[Alstom1995]

Well I saw it used in dosbox, and I think it was a good idea but whatever it was just a thought.

[Bart]

I suppose it could be done.

[Arbee]

MAME/MESS has a "capture mouse" toggle, as did Modeler. It's easy enough to do in SDL.

[nikdd]

Something just occurred to me. When playing the emulator in a window size the mouse is able to move off of the game screen and accidentally click into anything on windows. Would it be possible in a future version to restrict the mouse into the game window only, and if you want to click out of it then press a specific key?

Hi Alstom1995,

If you run Supermodel on Windows with the RawInput input system (command line option "-input-system=rawinput") then you will get the behaviour you want. The mouse will be swallowed up by Supermodel and you won't be able to accidentally click on anything else (in fact, to switch to another program you'll need to use Alt+Tab). You will lose the cursor too in this mode, so to get the crosshairs in Lost World you should press Alt+I.

Note that in this mode the mouse movement might feel slightly different. This is because RawInput reads the mouse directly and before Windows gets to apply its mouse ballistics (things like pointer acceleration etc). However, I doubt you'll really notice this whilst playing a game.

Hope that helps, Nik.

[Alstom1995]

I really must get to grips with this command line lark. I keep cheating and using the loader!

[nikdd]

I really must get to grips with this command line lark. I keep cheating and using the loader!

It might be possible to select RawInput in the loader too - check with Groni.

Cheers, Nik.