Adding Multiple Mice Support to FLTK using MPX

Posted by Benjamin Close on November 25, 2008 under OpenSource, UniSA | Read the First Comment

For a while now I’ve been working on modifying FLTK to support multiple Mice. We need this functionality for applications we are working on. FLTK was chosen for a number of reasons. 

  1. It’s light weight
  2. It’s cross platform
  3. It was already in use by the applications being extended.
However, FLTK didn’t support multiple mice out the box. Multiple Mice support exists both under Win32 via the RAWINPUT api and under Xorg via MPX.
Though support in the various toolkits is still lacking. Not surprizing considering how recent MPX/RAWINPUT is.

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