I had this idea whilst listening to my Chem prof talk about ideal gases.

Is it possible to change the functionality of ones existing touchpad, and use it in the same manner as a mac touchpad. That is, the exact same, except two finger scrolling instead of the stock right hand scrolling business.

I'm running Vista on a LG E500.

Quote: Originally Posted by Plantmiester I had this idea whilst listening to my Chem prof talk about ideal gases. Is it possible to change the functionality of ones existing touchpad, and use it in the same manner as a mac touchpad. That is, the exact same, except two finger scrolling instead of the stock right hand scrolling business. I'm running Vista on a LG E500.

It is entirely possible and in multiple methods.

The hardest, in my book, is to rewrite the driver itself to reinterpret the input so the gestures work the way they do in the Mac software.

Another is to write a piece of software that grabs the input directly from the driver and interprets it into the gestures you want to use and sends that output back out to the OS.

Without the specifics on the touchpad that is in that laptop, however, I can't do an effective search. I've hit the LG website, but it doesn't play nice with Firefox.

edit - just to add something - my touchpad on my Dell Inspiron has a 'gestures' menu, but nothing that calls for two finger scrolling like the Mac. You can adjust the areas on the right side and bottom to act as vertical and horizontal scroll pads, however. This is the kind of scrolling that Mac had instead of the two finger thing. (I use OSx86 as a secondary OS on the laptop, and it takes a little work to get used to the difference in scrolling methods, so I totally understand why you would want to have both OS's work the same way.)

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It appears to be a Synaptics Touchpad V6.1

I'm not finding anything other than how to setup the two finger scrolling in Vista when you are running it under bootcamp and parallels on a MacBook. However, if you know anyone who's got some decent programming skill on the hardware side of things, it's easy enough to create a utility that'll do exactly what you need.

I'll keep looking, tho, because I'm now curious as hell.

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This is what is awesome about being in residence. There are several comp-sci majors hanging out all the time. Very good stuff.

Thanks for the help so far though, should at least give me some direction (and give you something to look into for fun )