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    Free Touchpad Acceleration Program

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by LannyBoy, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. LannyBoy

    LannyBoy Notebook Geek

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    If you, like me, are satisfied with your ToughBook in every way, and yet find the touchpad slightly frustrating, I think I have a solution for you. I have been using it personally for a while and I wanted to share.


    http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=40353


    After a bit of testing with other people, trying this out on both CF-29's and CF-28's, I think it is acceptable for use by the ToughBook community at large. It is very simple beta software, so use it at your own risk--though I do not believe it is capable of causing any real harm to software, and I can't imagine a way it could harm your hardware. It doesn't actually install anything, so there shouldn't be any problems a reboot to Safe Mode can't fix, if there are any at all.

    Here's how it works. It looks at the incoming mouse data, and applies acceleration if the movement meets the requirements of being greater than a certain distance (this allows you to maintain precision) while being lesser than a second distance (this allows for the touchscreen to be unaffected). Also, it uses a hidden mouse setting in windows to help reduce the jumpy qualities that often plague programs like this.

    All of these settings can be altered in the Options Menu which is included in the program. You can make it more or less precise and have it use different acceleration levels in both the X and Y axes, and you can change the thresholds on the movement. Play with it and see what works best for you. All feedback is welcome, as it is (and probably always will be) a work in progress.

    It is in a passworded .rar file. The password is 'toughbook'. If you can't unpack .rar files, the easiest program for it is WinRAR, which is available in a free trial version.

    Once it is running you can press ctrl + i to open the Options Menu. Click apply to just use the default settings that I have been using. Please don't give this out to anyone outside of the ToughBook forums crew at this time... I want to get as much feedback from more experienced users as I can before releasing it to the general public.

    This program is free for non-commercial use. If you would like to use it for commercial purposes please speak to me before doing so. Donations are always both welcome and appreciated, of course.

    This is for Windows 98 forward, though I've personally only tested it on XP. Sorry to you Linux junkies out there, but I'm sure Linux already has built in features and doesn't need any help. *g*

    Jay
     
    LannyBoy, Jun 22, 2008
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