Restrict mouse inside of game area.

yea, so you can't resize accidentally from the top, left and right sides of the window, but going to the bottom brings up the task bar so you can do other things quickly.

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Joel_GGG wrote:

I believe a borderless windowed mode is in the works. So that'll avoid accidental resizing. Otherwise, use fullscreen!

You are the best!

You wouldn't believe how many AAA games do not bother to implement this, even when asked for several years... (one example is the MMO Lord of The Rings Online).

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Joel_GGG wrote:

I believe a borderless windowed mode is in the works. So that'll avoid accidental resizing. Otherwise, use fullscreen!

That's great to hear.

It'll definitely help alleviate a huge rage-inducing grievance for me.

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As a sidenote, it actually happened to me again while I was in an instance BUT, this time it didn't freeze or crash or do anything crazy... it resized much more quickly so maybe it didn't get a chance to freak out. I don't know why, maybe I just clicked on the edge and didn't drag it, I dunno.

Once we have borderless window mode, people will probably be interested to know about MouseClip, or Ultramon.

Both tools provide a means of toggling the mouse clip to a given area. The former allows you specify coordinates, the latter clips to the active window.

I've used both(though obviously not at the same time!) for many years now, and have found them invaluable on my triple-headed machine. So many games that switch to fullscreen exclusive mode fail to set the mouse clip to the bounds of the display adapter. >:(

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Dreamify wrote:

If window resize actually leads to crashes, then not allowing window resize at least does sound like a no-brainer.

As for binding mouse to the window, yea, it would be nice to have options there. I would like to have the exact opposite option personally, though, that is playing fullscreen and not binding the mouse, so you can dual screen and move the mouse freely to windows on the other screen (cause in fullscrreen having the mouse bound IS currently default, and it sorta ruins the point of dual screen for me).

Yesterday I managed to get this done somehow.
I alt+tabbed out of the game while it was in the first loading screen, then brought it back up, and from that point until my next alt+tab, I could just move my mouse to the other screen.

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golem09 wrote:

(...) I could just move my mouse to the other screen.

A good point for borderless. While I myself simply like the speed of alt-tabbing, and taking notes etc. I have a friend, you made me remember, that always uses a second screen with his Eve Online profile, chat and stuff and that's what borderless lets him do (move the cursor to the other screen).

I also have come close to dying due to my mouse going outside the window.It would be nice to have the option.

Not sure if anyone is still interested in this given the age of this thread, but rather than start a new thread it seemed appropriate to reply to this one.

I've had numerous problems relating to windowed mode and accidental resizing or just plain lost mouse. These problems occur in two ways as far as I can tell; first is sometimes during desync, the second is when my ATI Radeon hiccups during a graphics operation.

Full screen is *not* a solution with my widescreen display and video card, nor is upgrading either my video card or display a realistic proposition. However there is a rather simple fix. I've written a short autohotkey script that uses the scroll lock key as a toggle to switch the PoE window to borderless and restricts the mouse to the PoE window using the ClipCursor API. It seems to solve most of the worst problems without causing any noticeable performance degradation or other side effects.

Not sure if it is appropriate/allowed to post the ahk script here or not though?