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Doodlemeat

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Mutliple mouse devices
« on: March 20, 2014, 11:55:16 am »
Hello, fellow programmers!
Is there support for multiple mouse devices now?
If not, will there be?
Let me explain my case.

We are a group of 5 who will attend a local game conference (pretty big) and there is also a contest in making the best visual game, most fun game etc.. and we have to use classical input devices.
We decided we wanted to have 4 trackballs. As far as I know, trackballs are simulated mouse devices.
And each person will use a trackball to control a robot ingame, it will be a fast paced action game.

Please tell me if this is possible. If there are any external library that we can use with SFML.

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Re: Mutliple mouse devices
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2014, 12:32:31 pm »
No, there's no plan for supporting multiple mice on desktop OSes (only multi-touch). This seems like a rather specific use case. And I don't even know how it would work at OS level (OS APIs usually deal with a single mouse).
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Re: Mutliple mouse devices
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2014, 06:09:05 pm »
You could try ManyMouse. It seemed to work well when I tried it.