Q: A NEW TRACKPAD DRIVER IS OUT

Tap-drag is not recommended to use,

Why not? (Just curious). It works fine on a PC trackpad. Must be an "Apple" thing. Also, I wonder what Parallels and VMware do to their drivers to get things to run so smoothly in their Windows virtual machines. Again, I'm just curious.

Some of us must sound like a bunch of whiners. But your development of this is really appreciated. (Love the implementations of the 4 finger gesture BTW).

Hi Vladimir... i have a Macbook 13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008... i have lion on it... and bootcamp 4.0

i installed the bootcamp support software... but the mouse of my trackpad only work if you actually click... the right button click doesnt work... tapping also is not working..

Your driver works with my model of macbook??

thanks

Daniel Faour

and i have windows 7 ultimate x64 on my bootcamp partition

My MacBook Air has just started to have the trackpad freeze upon wakeup - only started after the recent updates.  Never happened before.  Very unhappy with current circumsatnce, as this is happening on a daily basis 

Running 10.7.3

Need a fix ASAP Apple - not good enough

Vladimir  ....... i'm 100% in !! If you could somehow implement only the three fingers drag it would be more than enough to make the experience of using the magic trackpad under win 7 goes from rather useless to wooooow, and beside you would be my hero ! (with the lack of any decent draging function in the actual drivers you litteraly need to keep your mouse aside to make some draging operation here and then, and double tap drag doesn't count because you ALWAYS ending up draging stuff you didn't mean to drag and it is very frustrating ...So apealing that this device can be but without it, really it miss something ). I am sure that sooo many out there , like me, who desperately this to be implemented ....

Edit: I think I might be experiencing a Boot Camp issue.

I've been using your custom driver for a few days and think that it is a substantial improvement over the boot camp driver.I only miss 3 Finger dragging (i.e. 3 Finger swipe = mouse movement with held down left mouse button) and independent acceleration and scaling factors for mouse and trackpad. Thanks for your hard work

@ Ben, I don't know why you any many other users here complain and whine so much about useless features that are missing from the current stack. At least, put in a request for the useful ones, i.e. Magic Trackpad support!

To elaborate, three-finger dragging is already a mess in its implementation on Lion, as it deactivates the most commonly used and essential gesture, three-finger swipe, in its favour. Three-finger swipe is used for backward and forward navigation in everyday applications such as Finder, Safari, and iPhoto. Without it, you are left with only the two-finger swipe gesture for navigation, which is a much buggier and harder gesture to activate than three-finger swipe, and only compatible with Cocoa applications whose authors have programmed support specifically for this gesture into their code, like Apple's own software and Google Chrome. There are literally only a handful of applications that support or use this gesture, as opposed to the more mature and popular three-finger swipe gesture. Further, dragging a window in an application is an action that is much less common or likely than navigating within that application. This is especially true in Lion, where all application windows can be maximized now and organized onto their own individual desktops for maximum workflow efficiency, allowing you to four-finger swipe between the multiple desktops to reveal each application window in all of its full-screen glory! Finally, with all of these shortcomings, what makes you think three-finger drag would be possible or useful under Windows? There is no Cocoa programming language to enable Windows software developers to utilize this gesture, nor an Apple API in the current Bootcamp drivers to allow Windows to even detect such a gesture. Should these two major issues magically get solved tomorrow, then the same problems that are currently being experienced under Lion will only be replicated under Windows. That means no three-finger swipe navigation under everyday applications, such as Windows Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Google Picasa, etc.

So, having said all of this, do you still find the three-finger drag gesture to be efficient, necessary, or even ergonomic for that matter? Are you that lazy to perform a sustained one-finger click/tap and move another finger to drag the application window to place that you want? Do you really need Apple to come along and create a whole new three-finger sustained click/tap gesture that allows you to do with three fingers what you were already doing with two? I must say, if that is the case, then this is exactly why Apple has always been tremendously successful with their business model. They have dumbed down technology, sometimes to the point where useful features (i.e. elimination of Expose and Spaces in favour of a consolidated Mission Control under Lion) and efficiencies are lost, in favour of providing the end user with an easier and "cooler" interaction. In other words, they quite literally feed off the naiveness of the masses.

From here forth, we should all be focusing on achieving fruitful gestures under Windows which double or triple the user's productivity, not useless ones which make the user giggle out of excitement and then forget why he even wanted to drag that application window in the first place.

I see your point but take into account that workflows may differ.

I often have to copy and paste text snippets and 3 Finger dragging gives me the chance to keep my left hand at the keyboard. The three finger drag option I had in mind is nothing more than moving a cursor while left mouse button is pushed and therefore Cocoa programming language is not needed.

Hello Ben,

Maybe you misunderstood the terminology I used in my post. What you are referring to is a sustained click/tap with the cursor on the menu bar of an application window, where with a second finger, you move the position of the cursor, and hence, the position of the application window. This is the gesture which has existed under Mac and Windows since their inception and is still the most ergonomic and non-obtrusive method to perform dragging operations.

On the other hand, three-finger drag is Mac-only and requires Cocoa commands to be in place to address the Apple API in the Lion trackpad stack. This means it will never work under Windows unless Apple decides to implement this gesture into their Bootcamp driver, OR if Vladamir ends up getting a leaked source code of Apple's patented API and an annual six-figure salary, so that he can focus all of his time into writing the necessary code to make this wish of yours possible. Even then, he will still need a team of developers to work alongside him to boost efficiency, so be prepared to pay them annual six-figure salaries as well.

In any case, for your workflow, I perceive that keyboard shortcuts are still faster than any gesture ever could be:

CMD + C --> CMD + TAB (or ~ depending on whether you are switching applications or windows within an application) --> CMD + V --> CMD + TAB (or ~) --> start procedure all over again.

This whole procedure would probably take five seconds flat on a good ergonomic keyboard, such as the Logitech Wave or Apple's own Aluminum Keyboard. The only issue with this repetitive task, as with any, is that it will put strain on your joints which over time will result in repetitive strain injuries. So, I would say stick with a combination of keyboard + trackpad gestures under Lion for your specific workflow. And if switching windows is your primary task, then revert to Snow Leopard, since Expose was A LOT easier for navigating between applications, windows, and virtual desktops (or in Apple's sexy lexicon, Spaces) than Mission Control. I hate the direction that Apple is taking its desktop computing division. It is really affecting Mac users' productivity at the cost of simplicity and intuitivity, which are core values that are better served in the mobile computing sector.

Cheers,

Rez

Hi Vladimir

Firstly - Awesome work with the Trackpad++ software/driver.

I have ideas for some improvements, that for my PoV, would make it equal to using OS X instead of Windows.

1. Currently, it has an issue with tap-to-click, where you can tap ANYWHERE on the trackpad, this functionality causes a lot of "miss-clicks". To remove theese miss-clicks, limit the area of where you can "tap-to-click", to the middle section of the trackpad - Next step in improving this functionality, is to limit the max distance from the first tap, to the second tap - However, this would be implemented quitly, if you do the first improvement.

2. I still havent experiened an OS X scroll like feeling, so somekind of functionality, which can change/edit the smooth factor of before and after a two-finger scroll occur. Lots of browsers has this as an addon, ie Firefox and Chrome, but the overall scrolling could use it in Windows.

And again, awesome work with Trackpad++, it has made me able to use Windows on a regular basis when working with C#, instead of Parallelsinining!..