HP Envy 14 click in touchpad like Macbook?

wow. it actually works on windows 7 after you install the service pack.

nice job Microsoft. Time to run a macro and find out what the correct shortcut thing is/get some commands to do it in a kinda crappy way in a macro

 

dunno. It just did. *shrugs*

edit: Well I discovered AutoIt's problem. It just opens the wrong thing.

ah well. I'll just setup touchpad zones on the top left and top right of "none/disabled completely no movement or tapping" so I don't accidentally trigger movement on the touchpad while typing.

edit the edit: of course that doesn't actually work. at least for the right side (left side works). whatever.

 

Update:

Last night (3/20/11) I ran MS update and it suggested an update to the 7.4 drivers I downloaded from Synaptics just a few days back. When it installed the update (~18mb if I remember correctly), the orange "locked" light turned off and has not been back on.

Not sure if I can actually activate/deactivate it with the update (@ work without my Envy right now) but at least the light is no longer on.

 

It can.

You however have now lost the ability to double and triple click anywhere.

You can still single click anywhere and the right click works properly (down at the bottom).

It also still shuts off the touchpad from moving/tapping while you type. Reil's still scrolls but whatever. That was happening anyway.

well corner click stayed on mine anyway. The right click is now um...like a bit above the buton line and not all the way to the center line that splits that shows where the two buttons are but whatever. works well enough and I can now turn it off.

awesome

 

I posted a thread with the guide, am I missing anything?

 

just that bit where if you do more driver shenanigans you can get tap to disable to work again.

 

do u guys know how I can make a dead zone so that I can rest my thumb on the touchpad and still not enable the two finger scroll? kinda like the mac

 

with reil's. No. It can't figure out where your fingers are and ignore one.

Limitation of the SDK and reil is never updating his thing again now that he bought a mac.


With nothing, I dunno (it kinda worked but two finger scroll was turned off and it glitched out a lot)

 

It seems like I have been trying to get my Envy 14 trackpad to behave like my MacBook since I bought the Envy. I have tried everything and it's still frustrating to use the trackpad.

I think I'm going to go a different way. Maybe I'll try to get my MacBook to work like my Envy.

 

Simply put, the Clickpad and MBP pad have two different designs that inherently prevents interchange. The best way to use the ENVY pad is to treat it like any other trackpad + buttons configuration on standard laptops.

 

Of course it's personal preference but I disagree. With the click anywhere drivers and reil's I don't think it could get any better. My GF has a mac and uses my computer for the photoshop but could not use my computer before installing these clickpad drivers now she is able to use it and doesn't even curse! ha

I really feel the click anywhere drivers EAFD found are the best thing that has happened to my envy since i got it. I absolutely love the way it works now.

 

hey spencer.

I kinda discovered how to make a pseudo deadzone for the buttons if you ever wanna go back.

(sure it doesn't work if you move your finger your'e pointing with down into the area where the thumb is or if your thumb moves too much but hey. works well enough)

advanced palmcheck stuff with a filter activation time of 0 seconds (so always on). It sorta just shuts off part of the touchpad's sensor area

also works on the click anywhere drivers since my driver stuff is such a mess (can't get tap to disable to keep working with the new touchpad UI software drivers, CAN get click anywhere to work after you install that windows update stuff to downgrade the drivers.

soooo....screw it.)