RE: [pygame] Speed of mouse position capture

["Brian Bull" <Brian.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Ippolito
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:21 a.m.
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pygame] Speed of mouse position capture
> 
> 
> On May 15, 2006, at 7:29 AM, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> >> [embarrassed] I don't know how to multi thread. Will try using 
> >> DirectX, failing that will investigate multi threading 
> (can you point 
> >> me to a good reference?)
> >>
> > I don't know how to use threads very well either.
> 
> That's not a problem, because threads will most definitely 
> not solve this problem anyway. Mouse positions are only going 
> to get updated when the event queue is pumped, and besides 
> that you'd lose *more* mouse information by calling get_pos 
> than by inspecting each individual event since it just 
> returns the last mouse position that SDL knows about, rather 
> than each individual event.
> 
> In this case, there's nothing you can do except interpolate 
> -- Windows is coalescing some of those events (and I would 
> expect other platforms to do the same). Using a bezier curve 
> to interpolate between mouse positions usually produces 
> something reasonable looking.
> 
> -bob

Hi, thanks for the advice, can you point me towards some code for bezier
interpolation?

Brian
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