TwoFingerScroll (two finger scrolling done right! + more)

I can't access the Tablet PC Forums site to download the latest version of 1.09. Would it be possible to post the file in this thread? Much appreciated for your help.

Update:

Got it working now... No need to post. Thanks.

 

where can i download the latest version? Sounds sweet!

 

Try this version (1.0.9): http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/hp-...ate-two-finger-scrolling-done-right-more.html

 

I like it!

Gj

 

I have nothing to add other than: THANK YOU!

I love the ingenuity of people who have technical abilities and get annoyed by some techie thing in their life. THIS is what makes so many other people's lives easier and more fun. Yay for geeks.

 

Hey OP,

I did the exact same thing - learned c++, installed the trial borland ide, and modded the code to my liking. Some things I implemented were:

sliding (it would slow down to a stop) - makes scrolling feel VERY clean.
circular scroll

and... in the process I broke a lot of things but those two things are all i needed to get scrolling to feel right. Most of the code I modded is in an issue here:

Issue 91 - two-finger-scroll - I wrote some code for two finger circular scrolling - add it in? - Two finger gestures for Synaptics TouchPads on Windows - Google Project Hosting

If you want to look at the code and add it in, please do!

Oh, i notice that the code didn't include slide - and the code is forever lost in a HD crash. Here's a description for slide:

Slide works if you are still holding your fingers on the touchpad after having scrolled (couldn't get it to work for when you let go like mobile phones do). It is similar to 'keep scrolling on edges' but works whenever you stop moving your fingers but still have them on the touchpad.

If the change in the tap deltas are 0 or close to 0, then ignore normal movement and gradually decrease the speed (speed= speed*.8) until it falls below 1 and then set the speed to 0.

I also made a slider for the speed decrease, to allow you to choose how fast you want to slow down.

 

Awesome tool, but you probably already knew that.

How about adopting TFS to support some of the Windows 8 native gestures - like calling up the Charms or App-Bars, and switching through running applications?

 

This is amazing. I've been dealing with the crappy Synaptics scrolling for too long. This works exactly how I want!

 

Synaptics drivers

updated drivers for two finger scroll works on windows 8 choose the Version 16.2.16.2 n-c version dont need twofingerscroll anymore
official synaptics driver

 

While this might be a "great contribution", it also might be laced with some kind of keylogger which sends you private information to remote internet servers. The only way for us to know whether or not the code is 'clean' is to see the source code. The author is not technically obliged to do this, but there's no reason not to, unless he's afraid that (1) his code is ugly, (2) people will find out about backdoors built into the code, (3) he thinks that he won't get donations any more if he does (why would that happen, provided that he continues to develop the tool?).

 

@nothx: you can fin the source code here: two-finger-scroll - Two finger gestures for Synaptics TouchPads on Windows - Google Project Hosting

 

Man I'm someone who hates it when people people put up requests especially when there is a wealth of information already kicking about... however this is an issue which I have searched far and wide for and have not found a solution from Dell or any other third party fix.

I use TwoFingerScroll because of some of the issues I have with the Synaptics touchpad on my Dell 521x running Windows 7. The problem is because is that it has a clickpad and where the physical buttons are also touch sensitive under the pad. Whenever I try to click and drag, the touchpad jitters or stops moving because it gets confused which which finger is trying to do stuff. I made a video of the issue which may better explain my point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9olbwTPVE. What I would like to do is not have the bottom 1/2 inch of the pad touch sensitive to fix this conflict. I know it can be done in Linux (see: [SOLVED] Can I Reduce Sensitive Area of Touchpad? - Ubuntu Forums). If anyone can make a working mod for twofingerscoll to adjust the parameters of the sensitive area of the touch pad for win7, I am more than willing to pay them a decent donation and would GREATLY appreciate it!

Kind Regards,
HanslterSlide

 

Hi everyone.

I've used TwoFingerScroll program to get two finger scrolling in the VMWare guest - it seems to work, bit buggy but works.

Is there any chance to get single finger scroll in VMWare?

 

How can I uninstall it completely? I already deleted, but it still works. I think it is making my Win 8 x64 crash.

 

I no longer need two finger scroll on my Dell 521x. I just downloaded the latest drivers form Synaptics which gives me all the features I need.

 

For anyone trying to make use of Wizmouse and Catmouse apps to scroll content under the cursor with Synaptics tocuhpad's gestures, I've found that disabling Synaptic's "scrolling" pointer, seems to enable the mousewheel events to be captured by the apps.

You need to create a new key on the registry, as follows:
- Using regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh
- Create a DWORD key called "UseScrollCursor" and make sure is set to 0.

Logout, login to reset SynTPEng.

EDIT: it helps, but at least Wizmouse seems to still have problems tracking the mousewheel event

 

When will this be updated, and is there a way to use this with dexpot and swiping gestures?

 

I'd love to use two finger scroll, but it seems to be crashing for me in some way. After about 10 minutes of use, two finger scrolling no longer works and I can't get it working again unless I exit two finger scroll and rerun it.

It seems as if the "UseScrollCursor" registry entry no longer works after a later synaptics update. Perhaps they renamed the registry key? Anyone know how to disable the scroll cursor with the latest drivers? I tried adding the reg key to several places, including the synaptics\SyntPEnh folders under HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Still nothing.

 

He means the source code the MacHater's modifications (version 1.09). If you'll notice, the latest version w/ source code is version 1.06 on that Google Code page. The original author did use Apache License, which allows distribution of a modified version without including source code. But regardless, I think it's bad form to simply increment the version number (1.07-1.09), which implies it is the same software project and same developer, when it's not. MacHater built upon the original developer's work (forked the project) and made it closed-source, and is now asking for donations.

To MacHater, the author of v1.07 onwards: did you at least try to work with the original dev? or did he abandon the project?

 

In the past this was a utility I could not live without.

Now synaptics drivers have scrolling down IMO, however in mid-late 2014 I find myself with a laptop that doesn't actually have twofinger tap. Huh. And synaptics hasn't signed their latest driver since before win8 came out (I've had no luck getting it to install correctly so I'm just sticking with OEM at the moment) so I can't find out if the latest driver has that.

I've turned off scrolling in this utility and it doesn't seem to interfere with the driver scrolling, but I have to wonder if palmdetect or something else in this application is going to create subtle incompatibilities or problems as I use the laptop... I think this tool should be revisited. Keep a mirror up for 1.0.9, strip all features that are now redundant, eg everything but the "Tapping" tab.

So basically I'm just asking to remove features for fear of conflicts.

 

WM_VSCROLL, WM_HSCROLL >>>> WM_MOUSEWHEEL??

Bit of a niche FR, but if anyone can do it I think it might be you guys, and kudos to all the work done so far, hats off

REAPER has a problem interpreting touchpad gestures ('horizwheel' / 'mousewheel' shortcuts are known).

With a mouse, users can create action-shortcuts, to do anything, like scroll/zoom, limited perhaps only by imagination...

Synaptics (and perhaps others like ALPS) events (WM_VSCROLL, WM_HSCROLL?) are not as well-handled (inanut'it don't work ), tried sacrificing all synaptics extras & using default ps/2 mouse driver, = no scroll anywhere, tried taskkill /im syntpenh... tried everything, it don't work)

About to look @ AHK translation scripts, whenceupon here I stumbled, so I wondered, can you guys do
any 'remapping', to not discriminate between 'mousewheel' & 'scroll' gestures?

Cause that would be kinda epic

deet's here