Mouse Lock API Points of Interest

This page is for tracking different parts of the Firefox code that relate to the mouse in different ways.

I suggest looking at widget/src/*/nsWindow.cpp for starters. It seems like the OS-Specific mouse stuff is all done in there.

Try researching in different OS APIs about setting the mouse cursor position directly, it should turn up some interesting results.

WIN32 API

• Internal mouse event tracking

Here's some code that actually locks the mouse into a rectangle with no width or height in the center of the screen in WIN32.

• http://pastebin.com/gNmh1uhz
• or http://pastebin.com/3YBfXxM2(requires adding the mMousePos and mMouseLock member variables)