What do browsers do to implement mouse lock on Macs? <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 8:13 PM Neil Toronto <<a href="mailto:neil.toronto@gmail.com">neil.toronto@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is what I ended up doing, as well as disabling mouse look on OS X. I used Firefox's autoscroll as inspiration, and I think I've made it usable enough. Let me know what you think. Neil On 03/11/2015 01:50 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > John Clements wrote on 03/11/2015 01:38 AM: >> Maybe simpler: why not just treat the mouse like a joystick? That is, >> if you press the mouse down and move it a little to the right and hold >> it there, the camera continues to move smoothly until you release. > > Firefox "autoscroll" is one popular example of this. Middle-mouse-down > on most parts of the page puts an indicator at pointer position on > screen; then, until mouse-up, the direction and speed of the scrolling > is relative to the direction and distance of pointer from this indicator. > > <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/advanced-panel-accessibility-browsing-network-upda#w_browsing" target="_blank">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/advanced-panel-accessibility-browsing-network-upda#w_browsing</a> > > > Neil V. > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div>