Connect two mouses

[reno57]

Hello,

Do you think there is way to manage two mouses with love2D (each player has one mouse to play with) ?

[zorg]

Yes. According to the SDL wiki, mouse event enums contain the mouse device ID, only löve doesn't utilize it, so one could write their own wrapper functions that handled these via FFI, instead of the ones löve uses in love.mouse.

[slime]

SDL doesn't support unique events for multiple mice in any of its backends, despite its external API being capable of outputting the information.

[zorg]

Well then, after being trolled by the SDL wiki, there's still a way, at least for windows;
WinAPI does support functions that do identify which mouse device sent any movement/button state change information (i used these previously when i was coding in delphi 6) so technically, on windows, one could still use those functions.

Downside is, you'd have to sidestep SDL's mouse event handling completely, and it won't be crossplatform. (unless, you know, all other OSes would have similar faculties you could use, and code those into your game as well)

In short, it's problematic to do.

[reno57]

Thanks guys, for these info. You confirm my analysis that there is no easy way to manage two mouses.