[HELP] mouse

[yves-gablin at ifrance.com]

Hi,
I'm Yves and I'm new to this list.
I use Wine as Win98 but without Windows, on a
ReiserFS directory.

I use Wine to run Stew, an Atari ST emulator, which
seems to be the successor of Winston0.5. I run it in
a 800x600 Wine Desktop, in managed=Y mode.
While USING Stew, the mouse behaves strangely: the ST
emulator runs inside the Wine Desktop in full screen
and the ST mouse pointer follows the movements of the
mouse but:
- The pointer seems to be stuck to an invisible
rectangle that is smaller than the full screen.
- When I try to move the pointer past this invisible
rectangle's boundaries, the pointer is hurried back
(in the opposite direction) to a point I assume is
sort of the center of this invisible rectangle.
- This instant-motion of the mouse pointer in a given
direction seems to be accompanied by a (more or less)
slight shift of the invisible rectangle in the same
direction.
==>Moral: if I want to reach an inaccessible point to
the left, I instead try to reach an inaccessible
point to the right, until the invisible rectangle
encloses the point I actually want to reach...
Tricky, eh?

Further more, I saw that the controlability (see
Moral above) is proportional to the invisible
rectangle size, and I saw that the controlability
varies with the Wine desktop config and with the Wine
patch. Roughly:
- The more advanced Wine is (that is for each new
patch), the more close the invisible rectangle is to
the actual screen size.
- Each Wine desktop size "behaves" differently, and
Stew in a window or Stew fullscreen (inside the Wine
Desktop, that is) "behave" differently: the best I
achieved is 800x600 fullscreen (almost OK with last
patch).

It seems that all this is related to the way a
Windows application can take control of the mouse
pointer (is it part of DirectSomething?).

Does anyone know anything that could help me?
Thanks!

 
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