[unable to reproduce] Windowed mode glitches

Post by **wildweasel** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 18:17

When playing GZDoom in windowed mode (and yes, I've confirmed that it only happens in GZDoom), while the mouse is seemingly captured properly, it's possible to "move" the mouse around the desktop and trigger any "hover" events on whatever windows are open around GZDoom. I can hover the mouse over the taskbar buttons without even pausing the game, and Windows will show me the tooltips for them (some of which overlap the window in some cases).

This gets particularly annoying with some other applications (and the taskbar on occasion) - for example, Gaim's tooltips tend to overlap the GZDoom window even if Gaim's window is not active. Other programs, like RKLauncher, actually steal focus from GZDoom when the mouse hovers over them. Naturally, I tend not to have those running with GZDoom, but I thought they would be good examples.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 18:31

Works for me. But keep one thing in mind: The mouse is a global resource. If there is only one application running that doesn't behave properly all kinds of bad stuff can happen.

Epoch · Post by **Epoch** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 23:41

Windowed mode doesn't work for me at all.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 0:27

In what way?

DoomRater · Post by **DoomRater** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:42

Windowed mode does not work after about a few minutes of playing. But this happens in ALL GL games (ZDoomGL, GunRoar) so I think it is a GL or graphics card related issue.

BlackFish · Post by **BlackFish** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 19:20

Actually weasel ive encountered this in normal zdoom as well.

Apothem · Post by **Apothem** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 22:18

I have a problem with windowed mode as well, whenever I look straight down at the floor, it crashes.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 13:25

BlackFish wrote:Actually weasel ive encountered this in normal zdoom as well.

Thanks for pointing that out. That means that there's a bug hidden inside ZDoom's input handling code or it is indeed caused by other software.

Shinjanji · Post by **Shinjanji** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 16:52

I've seen programs that reset the mouse cursor to a position when it's dragged. Perhaps you could just lock the mouse cursor to the center of the window?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 16:58

That doesn't help if some other application hijacks the mouse. The code is already doing something like that.

Shinjanji · Post by **Shinjanji** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 16:59

Aah, I see. I wonder what's stealing it, then, because my mouse wanders around too