From f2d8fc91ec37081f3f0c283f43671573c4f58e70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:46:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] + issue #0001970: Spaceball 5000 USB no longer works in
 Windows 7 in 0.15 dev versions

---
 src/Gui/GuiApplicationNativeEventAware.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Gui/GuiApplicationNativeEventAware.cpp b/src/Gui/GuiApplicationNativeEventAware.cpp
index 2ae0d3dd0..de4432392 100644
--- a/src/Gui/GuiApplicationNativeEventAware.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/GuiApplicationNativeEventAware.cpp
@@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ void Gui::GUIApplicationNativeEventAware::initSpaceball(QMainWindow *window)
 
 bool Gui::GUIApplicationNativeEventAware::processSpaceballEvent(QObject *object, QEvent *event)
 {
-    if (!activeWindow())
-        return true;
+    // Maybe this causes the regression reported in #0001970. So to test it it will be commented out for now
+    //if (!activeWindow())
+    //    return true;
 
     QApplication::notify(object, event);
     if (event->type() == Spaceball::MotionEvent::MotionEventType)