hello,
i might be wrong but i was under the impression that the
SDL_GetMouseState()api was updated to (int index, int *x, int *y) so
that you could identify x
and y positions for multiple mice.
Recently i had a link failure because of wrong parameters, and discovered
that SDL_GetMouseState() was set back to the old api, and in order to select
a different mouse, you must call SDL_SelectMouse() function.
why such a change? isn’t using 2 function calls for performing an operation
that could have been done in one more time consuming both at documentation
level and at coding level?
Vittorio
uh i’m not sure whether my message got posted or not, so i mail it again
just in case
i hope not to sound insistent or rude, but i believe having a discussion on
an api change might be interesting 
VittorioOn Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Vittorio G. <vitto.giova at yahoo.it> wrote:
hello,
i might be wrong but i was under the impression that the
SDL_GetMouseState() api was updated to (int index, int *x, int *y) so that
you could identify x and y positions for multiple mice.
Recently i had a link failure because of wrong parameters, and discovered
that SDL_GetMouseState() was set back to the old api, and in order to
select a different mouse, you must call SDL_SelectMouse() function.
why such a change? isn’t using 2 function calls for performing an operation
that could have been done in one more time consuming both at documentation
level and at coding level?
Vittorio
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- “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
I figured out today why i couldn t get any mouse inputs with sdl 1.3…
The default mouse was my laptop touchpad, and not my usb mouse. I had no problem with that under 1.2. I personally would prefer a more abstract layer, so that i can have mouse input on what ever mouse is currently used. Like it works with windows mouse management right now.
Maybe you can implement something like:
SDL_SelectMouse(SDL_MOUSE_ALL);
?