HOW TO: ALPS touchpad with circle scroll and back and forward in firefox

undo the UseCustomGUI thing.

Just use it to enter the extended config.

[chex]

Originally Posted by plsdonotbug

undo the UseCustomGUI thing.

Just use it to enter the extended config.

Nice, that solved the error. But I get an error for Easy Capture: "Easy Capture could not loaded", that's not even proper english lol...

I'm liking the circular scroll, but with my Sony drivers, there was a feature called "sliding finger" that allowed the following tasks ( around the top left corner): slide right = maximize window, slide left = restore size, slide down = minimize, slide up = restore window from taskbar, slide diagonally down = close window. Is there a way for me to get this feature back (while keeping the dell drivers)??

[imar3l]

This one did not work for me, but i'm using a driver from dell d410 and it works on 1530.

This is the link to the driver...
http://rapidshare.com/files/157799942/R113813.zip

I get forward/back+horiz/vertical scrolling+ middle mouse +application that i can launch from four sides of touchpad....
It is vista compatible...just ignore the warning.....

[pyr0000]

circle scroll is worth it. this has been working for me for a while.

[jonas1978]

For even more customization options, including touchpad tap zones, scrolling, etc. AND touchpad sensitivity (which IMHO is what makes the default sony alps touchpads so poor to use), use alps driver from here:
drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/Alps-Touchpad-Driver-Download-24482.html

uninstall old driver, restart, reinstall new driver, restart
most good settings are under "advanced" tab.

[jlouis]

For those who are getting the launcher.dll error copy EzLaunch.dll from an old Alps driver installation (or use the attached file) to the C:\Program Files\DellTPad directory. For some reason the ez launcher files are not installed by this driver.

[TZ300]

I followed pyr's instructions in the first post. No matter what I do, I cannot get the horizontal scroll to work, the circle is there, but it just does not scroll. Zoom works, vetical circle works.

This is in Firefox. I download the nightly tester, and typed in Netscape, $Netscape, or "Netscape", or {Netscape}, non worked. There are no errors. I got the Dell tab but I do not have the gesture tab. What the trick?

It works in IE, but I hate going back to it. Anyone can help?

[davychiu]

Originally Posted by TZ300

I followed pyr's instructions in the first post. No matter what I do, I cannot get the horizontal scroll to work, the circle is there, but it just does not scroll. Zoom works, vetical circle works.

This is in Firefox. I download the nightly tester, and typed in Netscape, $Netscape, or "Netscape", or {Netscape}, non worked. There are no errors. I got the Dell tab but I do not have the gesture tab. What the trick?

It works in IE, but I hate going back to it. Anyone can help?

You need to edit the apoint.exe with a hex editor. I documented my steps in getting mine to work.

engineersjournal.blogspot.com/2008/12/sony-vaio-touchpad-with-circular-scroll.html

[morphication]

hi,
first of all a big 'thank you', guys! i was searching for some proper solution for the whole alps touchpad stuff since months. i don't have the solution for firefox compatibility, but still, thanks.

so. the same with me. i did everything explained in this thread and still cannot horizontally scroll and go back-/forward in firefox. i tried to hex-edit apoint.exe on my own, change the title of firefox to 'Netscape', install the version of davychiu... with no results. what could i have done wrong?

do we also need to edit firefox config-parameters? like mousewheel.* ?

p.s.: what dou you think: what, for god's sake, makes alps-people hard-code letters like "Netscape" in their drivers? is this some kind of company-strategy like "screw the firefox-people, they didn't want to give us benjamins"? as i remember, people tried to contact them and dell, but no response.

i mean: they're kicking the hell out of us in the university, teaching us how to write beautiful code and not to make such fatal mistakes. and still the real world doesn't get a better place to live

greetings

[3dd13v]

Try changing the title to " Netscape" with a leading empty space and without the quotation marks. It works for me. Any solution for the horizontal scrolling issue?