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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Is there a way to check for window focus?

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Levanthus
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Posted: 24th Jul 2010 12:44
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ok Simple thing here, making a game, when in windowed mode the mouse is "glued" to the centre of the game screen, but if you switch to another application window the mouse stays stuck in the middle of the screen where it is placed within the game, is there any way to check if the game window is the main focus? so when it's out of focus it "unlocks" the mouse pointer?

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IanM
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Posted: 24th Jul 2010 20:37
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So I guess you are using the POSITION MOUSE command to keep the mouse pointer centralised?

In that case, you can use the HAS FOCUS function provided in one of my plug-ins, and only call the POSITION MOUSE command when it returns a 1:


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Levanthus
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Posted: 24th Jul 2010 23:19
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OUTSTANDING!!! thank you so much that's PERFECT!!... why was that not in the program to start with?? anyway, thats brilliant thank you

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