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    FZ21s touchpad questions

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by djsubtronic, Feb 11, 2008.

  1. djsubtronic

    djsubtronic Notebook Evangelist

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    All my previous laptops have had Synaptics touchpad and personally I preferred it, as it offered a lot more options and pressure sensitivity. From what I've seen on the Vaio's Alps touchpad, it appears a lot more basic.

    My question however is, does the Alps touchpad have a way of tapping and dragging in such a way that when you drag something to the edge of the touchpad, it keeps dragging? At the moment I can tap and drag, but when I reach the end of the touchpad, it jus stops, so I can't drag further.

    Another question - Synaptics had a beautiful feature called coasting if I remember rightly, when you just flick the scrolling area of the touchpad quickly and the page will continue to scroll even when u move your finger. Can this be done on the Alps touchpad?

    Thanks.
     
    djsubtronic, Feb 11, 2008
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  2. kuncheesh

    kuncheesh Notebook Evangelist

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    i have an alps touchpad on my inspiron 1420 and the tap and drag feature is there on it...it keeps on dragging if u r on the end of the touch pad.....i am sorry that i donno anything abt the coasting feature....can u make it clearer
     
    kuncheesh, Feb 11, 2008
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  3. djsubtronic

    djsubtronic Notebook Evangelist

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    When you use the side of the touchpad to scroll through a document/webpage/list etc, on the Synaptics touchpad I was able to, for example, flick my finger quickly downwards, and the page would keep scrolling automatically. The speed of the scrolling would depend on how fast I flicked my finger.
     
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  4. kuncheesh

    kuncheesh Notebook Evangelist

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    i dont think this feature is present in alps...... :)
     
    kuncheesh, Feb 11, 2008
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  5. JesseMiga

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    My FZ290 has a configurable drag-lock setting.
     
    JesseMiga, Feb 11, 2008
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