Hello !

I have a question about the game window and mouse cursor related to windowed mode of the game window.

In my platform game, i let the player use mouse for his movement.
The problem is that when you move the mouse , the mouse cursors gets out the game window ...And when the player clicks out the window for an action ingame, the game window is brought behind the window that is clicked on.(which is normal you 'd say).

I am looking for a way to lock the mouse pointer inside the game window and not let the mouse pointer click out of the game window.

I have searched the manual of course, but no result.
And online tutorial.

I know that fullscreen would avoid that problem, but i want a solution for windowed screen.
And i dont seem to find it ...

You cannot and - more importantly - SHOULD not restrict the mouse movement to a certain window. If the player is choosing windowed mode he does so for a reason and you'd take just this reason away with the restriction.

To your problem: on every mouse click check if the mouse is within the bounds of the window. If it is not just ignore the click. You can use http://www.conitec.net/beta/amouse_valid.htm for this purpose.

I have to disagree with Uhrwerk here: Locking the mouse is perfectly fine and necessary for most games where the mouse is used to handle more than just a menu. However, the mouse should unlock when the engine window loses focus (f.i. by pressing Alt+Tab) or maybe even when the player presses Esc and opens the menu. You can add an option in the options menu of your game where the player can disable the mouse locking, too (that's how Starcraft II does it).

It is easily possible with lite-C to restrict the mouse pointer to the engine window but I fear it's not so easy with C-Script, I assume you have to use a DLL and I don't know if such a DLL exists.

That's exactly the point for me. Many people do not know how to change the currently focused window, besides clicking another one.

Just use SetCursorPos API...
If the window isnt in ForeGround then dont set mouse pos. Not that hard?
Wheres the problem here?

i think it's C-Script...