[Bug 6971] Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971





--- Comment #281 from Xavier Vachon <xvachon at gmail.com>  2009-12-06 20:49:16 ---
(In reply to comment #280)
> Ok, even though I can't claim to understand quite how the two patches works,
> I've created a new version of the patch
> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21554 that should work on 1.1.34.
> 
> It incorporates elements from both patches, but I don't think that it will
> reproduce the behaviour of the force-box patch (someone with a better
> understanding would need to take a look!) - it would be nice if we could
> combine the two.
> 
> Tested patch and confirmed behaviour from 21554 patch restored - I now have a
> working mouse in Mass Effect! :)
> 
> Under /home/$USERNAME/.wine/user.reg, following settings did not reproduce the
> restricted mouse movement, so guessing it now ignores "force-box":
> 
> [Software\\Wine\\DirectInput] 1258814435
> "MouseWarpOverride"="force-box"
> "BoxPixels"="10"
> 
> Basic howto (as root) - you can see I've made the patch against the bz2 file
> from sourceforge rather than from git:
> 
> wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.1.34.tar.bz2
> tar xjvf wine-1.1.34.tar.bz2
> cd wine-1.1.34
> wget http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=25097 -O mousewarp-1.1.34.patch
> #Download other patches you may want at this point
> patch -p1 < mousewarp-1.1.34.patch
> autoreconf
> ./configure
> make depend && make
> make install
> 
> To run Mass Effect from Steam, I use: 
> WINEFORCEMOUSEWARP=yes wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe"
> 
> Then I start it up from the My Games list.
> 
> Hope this helps someone. Apologies for not being clearer, it's late and I need
> sleep! ;)

I tested the patch with Assassin's Creed. If I play full screen I have not
experienced problems so far, but if I play in windowed mode the mouse still
escapes during gameplay. I run the game with :

env WINEDEBUG=-all WINEFORCEMOUSEWARP=yes wine "AssassinsCreed_Launcher.exe"

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