[Csantucci]

To equalize wear of arms and hands ( :offtopic: ) I am in this period using the left hand for the mouse, and inverted the mouse buttons. However OR does not seem to recognize the inversion of the buttons. Am I doing something wrong?

[dennisat]

See this Bug Report: Mouse Operations don't honour left hand setup

Dennis

[edwardk]

I started experimenting in this area and this is what I found out. There is no XNA method to swap mouse buttons which leaves the following method below.

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern Int32 SwapMouseButton(Int32 bSwap);

Since the above is to be used in a class, I created a class called MouseSwap(). Under the options form, I created the IsLeftHandedMouse option under the experimental tab and created a procedure to call the above process. With my preliminary test, the mouse buttons are swapped, but since the call is made at the driver level, the button change is reflected outside OR as well until the IsLeftHandedMouse option is unchecked. If you alt tab out of the program to do something, the buttons will be swapped. The best option in this case is to make sure the mouse buttons are set back to default when exiting OR.

Edward K.

[Csantucci]

Thanks Edward.
By the way there is an internal incoherence in OR, as the OR menu honours mouse left hand setup.

[gpz]

Edward, why don't you just simply modify the UserInput.IsMouseLeftButtonDown(), and the other 5 methods of these here to send reversed events? This way nothing would be changed in Windows, just OpenRails would handle the mouse buttons reversed.

I believe there is also a way to query the windows driver setting about left-handedness, and use that info as the base of the reversed handling.

Carlo, the menu honours it because that is handled by winforms, unlike the game window.

[atsf37l]

I have always used a reversed mouse, being a southpaw, and I've never had trouble with ORTS recognizing my mouse clicks. No, I didn't have to change any settings. What Build of OR are you running? :bigboss:

[edwardk]

Peter,

I was thinking about following this method at first, but initially I doubt it will work since XNA follows the mouse click via MouseState.LeftButton which would be tied by driver/hardware to the left button. Researching this process only led to the original method that I posted.


Edward K.

gpz, on 31 October 2014 - 02:58 PM, said:

Edward, why don't you just simply modify the UserInput.IsMouseLeftButtonDown(), and the other 5 methods of these here to send reversed events? This way nothing would be changed in Windows, just OpenRails would handle the mouse buttons reversed.

I believe there is also a way to query the windows driver setting about left-handedness, and use that info as the base of the reversed handling.

Carlo, the menu honours it because that is handled by winforms, unlike the game window.

[gpz]

Yes, but please note there is an indirection here: OpenRails windowmanager asks UserInput.IsMouseLeftButtonPressed(), wich you can modify to { return MouseState.RightButton == ButtonState.Pressed && LastMouseState.RightButton == ButtonState.Released; } in case of a left handed mouse.

Indeed there are two queries in Viewer.cs for MouseState.LeftButton at uncouple and throw-switch commands, but I think this is incorrect here, and needs to be modified to query the UserInput.IsMouseLeftButtonPressed() instead.

[atsf37l]

atsf37l, on 31 October 2014 - 03:51 PM, said:

I have always used a reversed mouse, being a southpaw, and I've never had trouble with ORTS recognizing my mouse clicks. No, I didn't have to change any settings. What Build of OR are you running? :bigboss:

But it does now! I loaded 1.5.1 today and the reversed mouse buttons are not recognized in OR. Every 10 years it pops up! This is on the full stable version with installer - getting lazy in my old age.

So how do we get it fixed?

[atsf37l]

Once more I ask, "So how do we get it fixed?" Lots of south paws out here.