Mouse positions and screen dimensions

C4DS

Any news on this topic.

I have been able to get something going with R20, on single and multi monitor setup.
But as mentioned earlier the coordinates returned from R21 don't make sense, and are different if the main Cinema application window is full-screen (on primary monitor) or windowed.

Manuel

hi,

We asked the dev with all your threads and tests.
@r_gigante made a bunch of tests also.

But no news

Cheers,
Manuel

C4DS

@m_magalhaes said in Mouse positions and screen dimensions:

But no news

Thanks for the update. I guess no news is good news ...

C4DS

Hi again,
It is not my intention to bump this topic every other day, but I just want to know if a response from devs is still in the pipeline.

So far, it seems that with R21 the obtained mouse coordinates are valid as long as the mouse pointer is hovering over the main Cinema application window. Once outside of that window the obtained coordinates are that of the last position inside the window.
This means that when the application is not full screen, or when multiple monitors are involved the coordinates outside of the window are useless. Most important is that one cannot find out if the mouse cursor is inside or outside the window and thus decide (or know) the obtained values are useless.

This isn't an issue with R20.

On the other hand, as far as I have understood with the release of S22, there will be no further service packs for R21. Which means any fix to this issue (if provided) will be S22 or R22.
Which brings me to the inevitable decision that I will need to ditch any further development for R21. There just are too many unresolved open issues for any of my current (and work-in-progress) plugins.

Manuel

hi,

no problem to bump it.
But still no news.

Cheers,
Manuel

C4DS

I am starting to lose hope we'll ever say any update/answer on this topic.

And as a result I am close to giving up on further R21 development. And beyond.
For me, there are just too many open issues that don't get resolved (this one included). The cost for finding workarounds, or alternative solutions is just becoming too high, and not worth the effort anymore.

Manuel

hi,

I apologie for the delay here.
you will have an answer for sure, maybe not the one you are waiting for, but you will have one.
I was going to talk about that in our daily meeting anyway, but thanks for bumping it again, we asked the dev again

Cheers,
Manuel

Manuel

hi,

After talking with dev and few tests:

Mouse data could be outdated when you were calling a command Data via a shortcut. This bug will be fixed in the next update.
GetInputState return coordinate in local to the editor windows space, not in screen space. But this should be used with caution and should probably be used only for keyboard modifier checks.
GetScreenDimensions This was a bit hard to understand what was going on, i must say that i wasn't expecting that.
First, the coordinates are relatives to the main display. (not the 1st display, but the display set as "main").
as the mouse coordinates wasn't really helpfull you can "force them" to 0,0 and -10,-10

This is my setup and the monitor 2 is in fact my main display.

0,0 will return 0,0 / 2560, 1440
-10,-10 will return -491, 2069 / -1440, 0

and that does make.

Cheers,
Manuel

C4DS

@m_magalhaes said in Mouse positions and screen dimensions:

Thanks for the detailed response.

This bug will be fixed in the next update.

Are we still talking R21, or will this be R22?

GetInputState return coordinate in local to the editor windows space, not in screen space. But this should be used with caution and should probably be used only for keyboard modifier checks.

If GetInputSate is not to be used to obtain the mouse coordinates, what would be the better way to get the mouse position?

Manuel

@C4DS said in Mouse positions and screen dimensions:

Are we still talking R21, or will this be R22?

it's not a stop seller so it will be probably fixed in R23.

Well this is the global function, in a GeDialog you should use GeDialog::GetInputState

I need to check the real differences to answer with more details sorry. This is something we need to talk about and document a bit more.

Not the answer you were waiting for i know.

Cheers,
Manuel

C4DS

it's not a stop seller so it will be probably fixed in R23.

Oh, I read "the next update" as being "the update right around the corner".
Not as if someone saying "the next day" but actually meaning "in a not to near future".
But thanks for pointing it out.

Well this is the global function, in a GeDialog you should use GeDialog::GetInputState

Sorry, I am not in context of a GeDialog, but a CommandData.
What other options than the global function do I have here?

True, not really the answer I was looking for, but still grateful for the reply. Thank you for that.

C4DS

@m_magalhaes said in Mouse positions and screen dimensions:

I need to check the real differences to answer with more details sorry. This is something we need to talk about and document a bit more.

Any news or additional info to share on this?

Manuel

hi,

sorry, it get out of my mind.

Cheers,
Manuel