Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/23/19:30:44
On 23 Apr 1997, rellwood wrote:
>
> For a particular problem that I am trying to solve, I want to set the
> boundry of the area that the mouse can scroll larger then the area of the
> screen. I'm using Allegro's mouse functions, but the one function that I
> would think should do it, set_mouse_range(int, int, int, int), only seems
> to be capable of setting the mouse range *smaller* then the screen, not
> bigger.
>
> Any ideas on this?
One way to do it would be to use mouse ticks instead, and compute your own
logical offset that way. "mouse mickey's" I believe they're called. Why
exactly do you need to do this? Perhaps with some more details someone can
suggest a better solution.
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