Rubidium wrote:

There's hardly anything that can be done about this 'issue'.

What happens is that the operating system, in this case Windows, moves the mouse in the window. OpenTTD 'catches' that and looks whether that location is different from the location where you started pressing. If that is the case OpenTTD will 'reset' the location of the mouse and move the window. When you are at the right edge of the window the operating system cannot move it to the right and will therefor not do it. It will also NOT send a message that he mouse moved to the right.

So basically there is no way for OpenTTD to know that you moved the mouse to the right, and if OpenTTD does not know it it cannot move it either.

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egladil wrote:

It behaves the same way on OS X. But this can hardly be called an OpenTTD bug because of the reasons Rubidium gave above. Also, I find it difficult to think of a situation where this would actually affect game play.

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StressMan wrote:

Thnx for the confirmation and the replies.

Well, I use it on a old laptop with a G-H joystick mouse (between the G and the H key).
Expecialy when I am fast scrolling with the mouse, I notice that I'm actualy first moving the mouse in a corner/edge before I press the right-mouse button (not on purpose, this because the speed I'm working (fast thinking, too slow clicking))

Also, when you are scrolling with the right-mouse button, it sometimes happens that you ain't pressing enough on the button, so that the cursor went to a corner/edge off screen (as if the button is no more pressed). When pressing hard enough on the button, that the scrolling ain't working properly (because you are on the edge off the screen).

I'm aware, that is not that important for everyone. They use most of the time a normal mouse.
Also if you are using a touchpad (as I use on another notebook)

Well, actualy I find it annoying (above the reason). Also the option to auto-scroll, it ain't working properly because I park the mouse cursor a lot of time in a corner to observe the screen, to think or whatelse. With the autoscroll enabled, the screen moves, which is anoying to me.

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Rubidium wrote:

As said before... the 'problem' does not lie at OpenTTD's side, but at a completely different level, being your operating system. OpenTTD does not receive any signals that you are moving the mouse 'outside' the window (moving it left of the left corner) because the operating system determines that this information does not need to be send to applications.

See the dilemma? I'd love to fix the issue for you, but I can't because OpenTTD does not know that you are moving the mouse because your operating system does not tell OpenTTD that the mouse is 'dragging' outside of the window.

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StressMan wrote:

I have given some reasons, where and why it can be nasty.
As reply to Emil Djupfeldt (egladil)
[i]Also, I find it difficult to think of a situation where this would actually affect game play.[/i]

I'm aware, that it is an OS-issue.
I can point to another game where the issue ain't be there (like Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, Locomotion)
Even the old TTDX hasn't the issue.
But this is proberly build with an kind of overlay, or in another way programmed.

You won't need to fix it for me, but I would let you know about the 'issue'. If it could be easely fixed (some option).
As told before, it ain't that easy...

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emjay wrote:

What about if there was a 1px "buffer" around the screen where you can't move your mouse (ottd moves the mouse back to 1px away from the absolute edge) then when you right click, the os should still send movement events.

You can still draw graphics under this "border" but just don't let the mouse move there.

Of course this will only work in fullscreen mode (otherwise, you wouldn't be able to move the mouse out of the window).

Sorry for resurrecting this thread after more than a year :S

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't fix

Flyspray clean up: issue is upstream, more than 5 years old, and it's not obvious what should be done with this next, so closing. If this offends, discuss with andythenorth in irc. Thanks.

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