[MacOS] Mouse moves beyond the video boundaries
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Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
- This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
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Description
The mouse cursor can be moved beyond the boundaries of the video, and this causes issues in the various cores that support lightgun emulation via mouse.
Expected behavior
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Steps to reproduce the bug
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Version/Commit
1.21
Bisect Results
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Present in the nightly version
Yes, this is reproduced in the nightly build
Platform & operating system
MacOS
Affected Cores
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Environment information
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Relevant log output
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in the macOS nightly build and trace the frontend's mouse handling around video boundaries. Confirm the behavior with a lightgun-supporting core; done means the cursor cannot move beyond the video area and out-of-bounds positions are no longer passed to affected cores.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, macos
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100