SDL-HINT-ANDROID-SEPARATE-MOUSE-AND-TOUCH set to 1 has no effect - what am I doing wrong? [solved]

SDL Development
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I am writing an app with PySDL2, SDL 2.0.9 and I’m trying to get separate mouse events. This is how my setup code works:

    import sdl2 as sdl

    loginfo("Setting SDL2 settings")
    sdl.SDL_SetHintWithPriority(b"SDL_HINT_MOUSE_FOCUS_CLICKTHROUGH", b"1",
        sdl.SDL_HINT_OVERRIDE)
    sdl.SDL_SetHintWithPriority(
        b"SDL_HINT_ANDROID_SEPARATE_MOUSE_AND_TOUCH", b"1",
        sdl.SDL_HINT_OVERRIDE,
    )
    sdl.SDL_SetHintWithPriority(b"SDL_ANDROID_TRAP_BACK_BUTTON", b"1",
        sdl.SDL_HINT_OVERRIDE)
    sdl.SDL_SetHintWithPriority(b"SDL_TIMER_RESOLUTION", b"0",
        sdl.SDL_HINT_OVERRIDE)
    sdl.SDL_SetHintWithPriority(b"SDL_RENDER_BATCHING", b"1",
        sdl.SDL_HINT_OVERRIDE)
    sdl.SDL_SetHintWithPriority(
        b"SDL_HINT_RENDER_SCALE_QUALITY", b"1",
        sdl.SDL_HINT_OVERRIDE)
    subsystems = sdl.SDL_WasInit(sdl.SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING)
    if not (subsystems & sdl.SDL_INIT_VIDEO):
        loginfo("Calling SDL_Init")
        sdl.SDL_Init(sdl.SDL_INIT_VIDEO|sdl.SDL_INIT_TIMER)
    else:
        loginfo("NOT calling SDL_Init, already initialized")

All other hints work perfectly, and I get “Calling SDL_Init” as output so SDL_Init shouldn’t have been called previously. But all mouse events I get on ,y Android 7.1.1 device are still SDL_TOUCH_MOUSEID, and I get no mouse motion when not clicking (as if it was a finger) etc.

So what am I doing wrong? What else do I need to do to get proper hardware mouse events on Android?

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You’ll find the same will be true for all the ones that start with SDL_HINT…

I don’t know PySDL2, but will it still work if you remove the quotes? Use the define literal rather than passing a string. Then you can be sure that you’ve not mistyped it.