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DirectInput X coordinate problem...

Started by Scorpide Apr 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM 3 replies 650+ views

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Apr 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM

Hi! I've got an odd problem with DirectInput. I'm writing 3D game and I want to get coordinates of the cursor and show them on the screen. I'm using DIMOFS_X and MSDN tutorial. When I move cursor without moving camera everything is alright. The problem appears when I'm rotating a camera nad moving it forward... Than my X coordinate shows some crazy values, once < 0, once > 0. These are really big numbers and I have no idea where they come from. I would be very grateful for anyone, who can see any solution for this...

Evil Steve

Apr 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM

This doesn't answer your question, but don't do that. Please. I installed Unreal Tournament yesterday and nearly tore my hair out because of the lack of pointer ballistics and my small mouse pad.

Scorpide

Apr 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM

Sooo.... You mean to don't use DI, just WinAPI?

Evil Steve

Apr 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM

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Original post by Scorpide
Sooo.... You mean to don't use DI, just WinAPI?

If you're using DirectInput to manage a GUI cursor, you definitely want to use Win32, so you get the benefit from pointer ballistics (And it's far easier to use). If you're using it for a FPS style camera, then you'd probably be best using raw input - although if you've already got the DirectInput code working, you might be as well sticking with it.

Scorpide

Apr 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM

I don't have working DirectInput code, as you see :) Thanks for advices, I will look for other ways to do what I want to do :) Thanks!

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