Free focused scroll 0.5 review
DownloadA project to implement an open source driver for Apple powerbooks.
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A project to implement an open source driver for Apple powerbooks. The project was started as an alternative to SideTrack (which isn't free) and an improvement upon iScroll2.
It acheives its advanced features by running the trackpad in what is called absolute mode.
This means that the driver can tell exactly what part of the pad your finger is touching. The Apple driver (and iScroll2) both run the pad in `relative' mode, and while that facilitates a simpler driver because the pad does most of the work, it is very limiting of what you can do.
The driver is NOT designed for use with the new 2005 PowerBooks, nor is it based upon the newer driver for them. It is entirely based upon the original Darwin ADB trackpad driver with the information for how to activate “absolute” mode taken from the ScrollPad project. The preferences daemon and the two-finger scrolling code is taken from the iScroll2 project as we didn’t really want to reinvent the whole wheel. At some point we intend to remove the iScroll2 scroll code, though. We believe it is possible to make the code much better if it utilises absolute coordinate information instead of just relative movement.
What's New:
Fixed some minor bugs and changed the driver to use our domain as the IORegistry entry.
Also the driver now supports a double-tap tolerance preference that allows you to filter tap-drags.
Previously it was possible to start a tap drag in a significantly different place to your first tap.
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