[Qemu-devel] Cocoa Video Driver & mouse grabbing (was: [PATCH] Experimental Cocoa Video Driver)

["René Korthaus" <qemu-dev@cordney.com>]

Am 10.04.2005 um 15:07 schrieb Mike Kronenberg:

> René Korthaus wrote:
>
>> I meant a simple switch to set whether you want mouse grabbing or 
>> not,  cause if you want to do this in qemu+sdl, you have to patch 
>> many files.  I personally don't like this whole mouse grabbing thing.
>
> The cocoa-Aproach does not use SDL at all, it is an alternative to 
> SDL. Mouse and Key Grabbing is handled completly by cocoa.m. The 
> cocoa-Aproach is meant to add a userfriendly GUI to qemu under OS X.

I know.

>
> In order to be able to use elements outside qemu (like for examples a 
> toolbar with a button to switch cdrom-images) you must have a way to 
> ungrab on the fly. I use the same ctrl+alt as in SDL.

Why do you have to use grabbing anyway? Its as simple as when the mouse 
moves over the Qemu window, the cursor in the guest os moves, isn't it? 
VPC doesn't need grabbing, too, right? I think no grabbing is more 
user-friendly.

>
> Never the less, one could make an Menu- / Prefferencepanel entry for 
> enabling/disabling mousegrab for Console-Style Guest-OSes

Then, that would require a command-line argument like -nograb for 
disabling mouse grabbing for the current session, which would be the 
approach I would favour personally and also for the users of a GUI, 
cause it would only mean to be a checkbox in the preferences.

We could probably start a poll about that... :)
BTW: I renamed the subject to meet the discussion point.

>
> Mike
>
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