Debugging mouse messages

Mike Hearn m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com
Fri Nov 22 08:09:35 CST 2002


Yes, I looked using Spy++ in Windows and it gets the WM_MOUSEHOVER
messages, the log looks like this:

<00010> 00080288 P WM_MOUSEHOVER wParam:00000000 lParam:00C20034
point:(64, 350)
<00011> 00080288 P message:0x0118 [Unknown] wParam:0000FFFA
lParam:BF87ACAB point:(64, 350)

I don't really know how to read Spy++ traces, is the second message an
undocumented one or something?

Does Spy++ work under Wine? I'd guess probably not, but being able to
restrict messages traces to particular windows (or sub windows) is
really useful.

thanks -mike

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 12:22, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> >I can't figure out why I am getting this:
> >
> >trace:msg:MSG_peek_message got type 5 msg 113 hwnd 0 wp 8 lp 41380d58
> >trace:cursor:X11DRV_GetCursorPos pointer at (661,442)
> >trace:msg:MSG_peek_message got type 5 msg 2a1 hwnd 10042 wp 0 lp 0
> >trace:msg:GetKeyState key (0x12) -> 0
> >trace:msg:WINPROC_CallProc32ATo32W func 0x413e9024
> >(hwnd=00010039,msg=WM_USER+000b,wp=00000000,lp=00000000)
> >
> >over and over again when the mouse is not moving. It appears that IE
> >(the constant polling for the cursor position occurs when showing a 404
> >screen too) has different mouse behaviour to other apps, for instance in
> >WebFerret the X11DRIV_GetCursorPos function is only called when the
> >mouse actually moves. In IE, it's called seemingly on a timer (i'd guess
> >every .25 or .5 seconds) even when the cursor is over a toolbar (though
> >not the address bar oddly).
> 
> If you look with Spy++ in Windows do you get the same? If not it's not
> IE itself but the combined behaviour of IE and Wine, each one retriggering
> somehow the other because of a different message behaviour. I also had to
> change my app as wine handled and sent some messages differently
> (different order of messages, different count...) which got me into a recursion
> that didn't happen on Windows. Of course I should have fixed wine. But as
> I'm not a message guru (and no one could help me) I had to change my app.
> 
> bye  Fabi
> 
> 
-- 
Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ




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