Usage, manipulating mouse input about pynput HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi,

Sorry for the late response.

I have tested your application, and it does indeed crash for me with the message short format requires (-0x7fff - 1) <= number <= 0x7fff when running under XWayland. This is caused by by the values passed to self.mouse.move: Xlib requires short integers, that is signed 16 bit values.

Now, whether this should be handled by pynput is a difficult question---one solution would be to wrap the error in a generic ValueError and mark the method as raising that particular exception, another would be to cap the input values.

The root cause, however, is in your algorithm. pynput.mouse.Listener.on_move will be called when you call self.mouse.move, thus triggering another call to move the pointer, eventually leading to an overflow. You will need to react only to user triggered move callbacks.

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As of commit e17bb06, I consider this issue to be solved. If you disagree, please re-open this issue.

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