Re: [MiNT] XaAES doesn't deliver button events with evnt_multi()

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Eero Tamminen, 10.09.2012 22:39:54:

> Hi,
>
> On maanantai 10 syyskuu 2012, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > Eero Tamminen, 10.09.2012 21:47:54:
> > > On keskiviikko 05 syyskuu 2012, Ole wrote:
> > >>  So I would try to create an window, show it on the whole screen and
> > >>  try to receive global mouse button events then.
> > >
> > > That works, but the problem is then that if user moves
> > > the (disable) mouse cursor to the place where menubar
> > > would be:
> > >
> > > * Window stops receiving button events until the invisible
> > >   mouse is moved again to the window area
> > >
> > > * Menubar becomes visible if user does a click on top of
> > >   it with the disable mouse
> >
> > I have not followed this thread, so maybe it's nonsense - you can switch
> > the menu off in XaAES as well as in MyAES and your window would cover  
> > the
> > whole screen, and receive everything.
>
> Will the desktop menubar be then be also redrawn when the program exits
> (which was the other problem for fullscreen apps)?

When you switch it on - sure ;-)

> If yes, please tell how to do that (preferably in AHCC) and/or point to
> docs about it which tells e.g. with which AES versions that works... :-)

There is and hopefully never will be a software-interface to switch the  
menu on/off.

There are various apps that use fullscreen (anyplayer, zview) without  
problems, so it's possible.


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Helmut Karlowski