@chennes do you have a 3D mouse on a mac?

do you have a 3D mouse on a mac?

@JohnOCFII do you or know of anyone that could test this ?

@pjcreath this solution seems a bit to overarching. Is there a way to fine tune it so it is shown only in relevant situations ?

@JohnOCFII do you or know of anyone that could test this ?

I don't. I agree that the solution seems blunt. Seems a conditional check for the existence of the mouse driver would only be done IF the user indicated they had a 3D mouse that required a driver. I think that'd require a Preference setting somewhere.

Moving to 1.2 for now

this solution seems a bit to overarching. Is there a way to fine tune it so it is shown only in relevant situations ?

Not this particular message. Note that all this PR does it make the behavior equivalent to Windows: no message at startup.

I agree that the solution seems blunt. Seems a conditional check for the existence of the mouse driver would only be done IF the user indicated they had a 3D mouse that required a driver. I think that'd require a Preference setting somewhere.

I agree that would be preferable, but this particular message is at static initialization time, beforemain is even called. And since most people don't have a 3D mouse, this is a lot of noise for the standard case.

@maxwxyz, to be clear, this "error" message shows up whenever you don't have the drivers installed (regardless of hardware) which is probably 99% of users.

That means anyone with a Mac could test this: without the drivers first (before and after patch), and then with the drivers (before and/or after patch). It doesn't actually require hardware.

That (and parity with the Windows behavior) is why I think it makes sense to disable this message in such a blunt way.

As to useful log messages about presence or absence of 3D mouse support, I think that's a separate issue that would be better logged in a cross-platform manner as@JohnOCFII suggests. And that would require hardware to test.