Hello, In my current project I generate terrain from a height map and the user may navigate around this virtual world. I am attempting to implement moving with the keyboard (a, d, w and s keys) and viewing with the mouse as in a first person shooter style move\look scheme. The issue I am having is "losing" the mouse as the user moves the mouse around because as soon as the cursor(which I have set to invisible) moves out of the client area it obviously stops sending mouse move messages to my application. Now I know there is a way to "trap" the mouse input because this is exactly what Jake2 does. When you load the game windowed or not the cursor disappears and mouse movement translates to looking around regardless of the operating systems interpretation of the where the cursor is. Anyhow, I have googled the crap out of this and just can't seem to find any information that pertains to my situation. So, any help would be very much appreciated, thank you in advance.

You can hack delta mouse movement with java.awt.Robot-class. You can get source-code too for free from brackeen.com. It's not a pretty solution but I guess it works. Though I'd suggest using LWJGL or JInput to get real delta movement.

If you can keep the mouse centered, as per other suggestions. Here's a thread about a good way to hide the cursor: Hiding Mouse Cursor

I already have the cursor hidden, I just need to find a way to keep the cursor centered. I am beginning to think that a library such as JInput which will allow me to track mouse input at a lower level is the way to go.

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I already have the cursor hidden, I just need to find a way to keep the cursor centered. I am beginning to think that a library such as JInput which will allow me to track mouse input at a lower level is the way to go.

So.. did you check out java.awt.Robot? It has a method mouseMove(x,y).

Hello,

I am indeed using a MouseMotionListener however I am unaware of a method that sets the cursor where you want it. There is the translate() method but that simply sends a mouse message to the specified point as if the mouse were there, but does not actually move the cursor so the problem would be the same once the user moved the mouse to the edge of the screen. As far as the Robot class you must use signed jars if your going to use it because it has the potential to be used maliciously so I am trying to stay away from Robot. If it comes down to it I will just have to use JInput I suppose.