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Regression -- "virtual trackpad" no longer working (Fire tablet trackpad)

The internal trackpad on my mac is basically dead/unusable. I have a trackpad app on my tablet, and a server app on the computer that talks to the tablet app to provide an effective trackpad.

If I am in a gui – anytime that the normal OS mouse pointer would show – then the virtual trackpad words fine.

I can two-finger scroll to change the selected item, no problem.

But I can no longer aim left/right. This was working about a month or two ago.

I can confirm that this behavior exists in 1.11.2.
I do not know if it ever worked correctly in 1.11.2.
It did "used to work" in 1.10.2, and does not anymore.

EDIT: In case this is a Lwjgl issue, see also: http://forum.lwjgl.org/index.php?topic=6477.0

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Did this issue start independent of a Minecraft update?

Independent of a minecraft upgrade, yes.

Last time I checked, on the mac, Minecraft was using the nightly builds of Lwjgl, rather than staying with a specific, known behavior build.

The effect is the same to the end user – a regression in behavior while playing Minecraft. That it is caused by bad behavior in a library isn't the issue.

Mojang could say "We'll standardize on a working version of the library".
Or, Mojang could weigh in at Lwjgl, and say "Hey, this is breaking programs like us".

Just a word of explanation for that:

Minecraft was using the nightly builds of Lwjgl, rather than staying with a specific, known behavior build.

The version actually was constant - the latest available build of LWJGL 2 (which was a nightly build), as LWJGL 2 was no longer being updated. As far as I am aware, they avoided changing LWJGL builds after a version was released.

Snapshot 17w43a updated to LWJGL 3, which means that many LWJGL issues are likely to have been fixed.

Can someone please check if this is still an issue in the latest snapshot 17w47a?

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Minecraft 1.11.2

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