Hey,

First of all thanks for making and maintaining this awesome piece of software. DF has everything I need, well, almost.

When playing (older) games my mouse pointer (cursor, etc) sometimes goes out of the screen onto the secondary monitor. Which is very annoying, especially when you want to scroll sideways in RTS games.

What I need is a feature that locks a mouse-pointer to a specific monitor. At least lock it to the primary monitor. Preferably implemented as a toggle hotkey.

Thanks,
Machiel

Seconded, though I doubt he will do this. I recall asking years ago, and getting a negative reply. you can try to Google windows mouse capture, that might point you in a good direction if memory serves.

If you are at all familiar with scripting, this is quite simple to do in one of the common languages AutoIt or AHK; just look at http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/59574-restricting-mouse-movement/ thread, which basically does it for you.

If you are not familiar with such scripting, small things like this are the perfect opportunity to learn.

(Curiously the only two RTS's worth playing CoH and RTW already do this, so I couldn't find anything to test it on, but the theory's the same for anything really.)

well im either asking this or a plugin system like MsgPlus! has so I can add my own script to DF.

Thanks for the suggestion Kilmatead. I'd prefer not to install a lot of software for something as simple as this, but if this suggestion gets rejected for whatever reason that will be my next stop.

The RTS's im playing right now are ~10 years old.. hehe

I'm not mad about superfluous installations either, but AutoIt (in ZIP form) doesn't require any installation - once you get your script working as you like, use AutoIt's compiler to create a self-standing EXE which doesn't require any installed runtimes at all, and you can then use it as you like.

An option, anyway, well worth experimenting with - with the added benefit that in future you're no longer reliant upon asking other developers to develop niche requests for you (howevermuch that seems convenient in the short-term).

(If you have any background in coding at all [even just a schoolboy's "Hello World"], AutoIt is ridiculously easy to learn, and extremely useful.)

Use MouseTrap its the only one i've found that works with win 7 x86 and x64. Alt-Z locks. Alt-X unlocks. Alt-C closes the program. No user interface or taskbar icon. Exactly what your looking for. I had the same problem with my older games, works like a charm.

OMG really? So epic 3 you Jon!

Thank you very much . This was the only thing I was missing in DF.

it works perfectly. Thank you very much again for implementing this

Thx it works good but I have one problem. When I use "Lock Mouse Cursor to Current Monitor" it lock perfectly but when I open another window (or just open another app usingALT+TAB) it unlock cursor to current monitor.

Good work. It works great in Beta 6.