I’m trying to get the current mouse position in my c++ code. The code works well when i’m working directly on the machine with the editor. When i’m using the editor via RDP (Windows 7), it doesn’t.
FSlateApplication::Get().IsMouseAttached()
Unfortunately this snippet returns false, so no mouse position given with:
I just ran into this today, working in 4.12.5. I’m remoting from a windows 8 machine onto a windows 10 machine. The engine is using windows API calls to find mouse devices. What I’ve found:
Mouse connectivity is updated in FWindowsApplication::QueryConnectedMice()
GetRawInputDeviceInfoA is returning failure when called with the mouse’s device handle. In my case the first API call with a null buffer is returning a required buffer size of 2 characters, but passing a buffer of 4096 bytes to the subsequent call still results in failure. The windows documentation states this function will return -1 if the buffer isn’t big enough, but the fact that its failing with a 4k buffer is a fair indication that’s not the problem here.
Adding a call to GetLastError() returns 0, so no error code to go off of.
If you manually set bIsMouseAttached to true at the end of the function, it appears to make the mouse work as normal. Not a nice solution but it’s at least a way to unblock yourself when working over RDP.