CursorControl::SetPosition spawns mouse events

[Devan]

Hello all.

I couldn't find how to do this in the API or by searching the forum, so I wonder if someone might have some insight. I'm making a custom orbit camera by capturing the mouse move events in my eventReceiver class.

I have the mouse set to the centre of the screen and each time it moves from there I set it back again (the usual low-level way to do mouse look). Unfortunately, when I move the mouse back to the centre using SetPosition, it spawns another mouse move event, and it gets an repeating loop of events.

I know that I could use a quick and dirty fix like not resetting the cursor if it hasn't actually moved, but that still means that there's twice as many events being spawned.
Does anyone know how to disable it so that SetPosition() does not spawn a new event?

[vitek]

I would think the right solution would be to periodically check the cursor position instead of responding to mouse move events every time one comes in. I know that the code in the FPS camera does this, so it would be a good place for you to look to get some ideas.

Travis

[Midnight]

maya camera scene node works also...have you seen my example in code snippets?

I found that camera system to be very difficult to control correctly with irrlichts querky event reciever.

it is possible I've since abandoned that paticular project and stopped working with that camera.

[Devan]

I would think the right solution would be to periodically check the cursor position instead of responding to mouse move events every time one comes in.

That sounds like a good plan. I would still need to use setPosition but wouldn't be affected by any new events.
Thanks for the input guys.