[Bug 8854] Unable to get keyboard / mouse input in multiple games

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8854





--- Comment #54 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2010-02-11 01:23:00 ---
(In reply to comment #51)
> > I suspect that won't work on Windows either.
> Yes it will - dinput talks directly to kbd/mouse/joystick drivers. In fact this
> whole bug is exactly about these cases - when window is created in the
> different thread then the one asking and/or the thread that created window has
> no message loop at all or during the game play.

Is there a test case for that to confirm this behaviour?

> The only proper way to fix this is the same as fixing dinput mouse - use xi2 to
> get raw keyboard events from X.

That's unfeasible, especially for systems without xi2.

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