There's a very good example in the SDL Docs, you know. That's how I learned how to do it. I'll post an example if you geniunely can't figure it out from PnP's [great] site and the docs...but try those, first.

It's all about try, fail, try, fail, get drunk, give up, and try.

Things change.

sand_man

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October 20, 2004 01:50 AM

I did look in the SDL docs but obviously i didnt look hard enough
I'm reading PnP's tutorials now.
thanks guys

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Thanks to PnP Bios's tutorial I know how to use the mouse buttons. I've just spent another hour reading the SDL docs trying to understand how to find out where the mouse is when clicked.

i read this

typedef struct{  Uint8 type;  Uint8 button;  Uint8 state;  Uint16 x, y;} SDL_MouseButtonEvent;

"x, y The X/Y coordinates of the mouse at press/release time "

But all the nested structs and unions have confused me and I dont know how to access these variables.

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[Edited by - sand_man on October 20, 2004 2:50:36 AM]

Anonymous

October 20, 2004 08:18 AM

The SDL_Event structure contains a member of this type (SDL_MouseButtonEvent) called button.
So, to get the mouse coordinates you would use:
event.button.x or event.button.y

sand_man

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October 20, 2004 08:33 AM

thanks AP

Boku San

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October 20, 2004 04:28 PM

One more thing, if you're in windowed mode and you want to grab mouse coordinates JUST from the window, you can use

SDL_WM_GrabInput(SDL_GRAB_ON)

and the border of the window will be the limit of where you can move the mouse. If you do use this, make sure that it scales mouse x and y coordinates to the window size (I know it does this with xrel/yrel values).

Things change.