Re: Problem with `while-no-input'

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>   
>> klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm running a build from 22. April 2006 build for Windows
>>> (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600). With this build it runs (i.e. interrupts)
>>> via: 
>>> - all keys
>>> - middle-mouse of a 3 button mouse
>>> - mouse-wheel
>>>
>>> It interrupts *not* via left and right mouse-buttons...
>>>
>>>       
>> Is the value of w32-num-mouse-buttons 2?
>>     
>
> yes.
>
> But i use a 3-button mouse! I didn't know that a user has explicitly
> set this variable to 3 if he uses a 3-button mouse?! Is this documented
> somewhere??
>
> Anyway: If i set w32-num-mouse-buttons to 3 via setq than all works fine,
> means the code is interrupted by every mouse-button...
>
> Without this setting only button 2 interrupts, but not buttons 1 and 3...
>   
Why not set this information via GetSystemMetrics? There is a good 
example on

    
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getting_hardware_information.asp

Note: In my MinGW installation SM_CMOUSEBUTTONS is defined (=43) but 
SM_MOUSEPRESENT (=19) is missing.