Tapping on Trackpad to open things - Windows

[Achiever]

EXACTLY!... we're still waiting for apple to make the fixed driver available... doesn't apple claim to be different?... that is, not ignore paid customers with broken purchases?... i wonder if the air driver has this fixed...

Not being able to tap the trackpad to open something HARDLY qualifies as Apple selling customers a "broken purchase." If you are used to such behaviors then I can understand losing the functionality would be a minor annoyance. On the flip side, is it really such a problem to tap the button below the trackpad. Heck, you barely have to move your scroll hand, if at all.

 

[fred.buckley]

window tapping

Yeah, the laptop I'm posting this on right now, a gateway CX2100! Speaking of, that's one thing that is also sad about the Safari browser for Windows: it doesn't recognize my scroll bar swipes on the side of my trackpad. That is quite disapointing, seeing as how Windows doesn't have two finger scrolling like Apple does.

Just so you know, I was able to write and post this entire message without having to press my trackpad click-buttons at all!

oddly, my new macbook pro does do the 2 finger scroll in windows... but of course ignores any tapping...

you'd think apple would be highly motivated to provide as smooth a transition as possible for ex-windows folk that have taken the plunge... i'm sure it's exactly these customers that inspired dual-boot in the first place!... if you're gonna do it, and you're apple, you do it right... right?...

many of these unhappy apple customers are used to trackpad tapping on the windows 'chines they still own... it's grating not to have the same function on their new apple 'chine in windows mode when they switch to their old 'chine... i don't expect apple to have the attitude: 'hey, we've got their $; get over it; we're busy doing gesture code now'...

 

[fred.buckley]

Do you know of any Windows laptops that recognize tapping on the trackpad as a click? Because I've never seen it on a non-Apple computer.

i got hooked on the tap part of 'scratch and tap' trackpads on early sony vaio laptops... and it's on my fujitsu... when i became aware that some hp laptops shipped with this 'broken', i swore i'd test before buying, but this macbook slipped thru...

 

[fred.buckley]

window tapping

Not being able to tap the trackpad to open something HARDLY qualifies as Apple selling customers a "broken purchase." If you are used to such behaviors then I can understand losing the functionality would be a minor annoyance. On the flip side, is it really such a problem to tap the button below the trackpad. Heck, you barely have to move your scroll hand, if at all.

ok, broken is a little strong... it's certainly a medium retro annoyance... especially since taking the apple plunge and having to use both my old windows and my new apple laptops pushes my face into this each time i have switch machines...

 

[aforty]

Apple really needs to get off their ass and get this in. This is ridiculous for people coming from Windows who may still have to dual-boot. Absolutely no excuse for this, this is a barebone feature of a trackpad.

 

[fred.buckley]

window tapping

Apple really needs to get off their ass and get this in. This is ridiculous for people coming from Windows who may still have to dual-boot. Absolutely no excuse for this, this is a barebone feature of a trackpad.

YES!... (thankyou!)... :v)

 

[Moz4]

Sorry to butt in - just found this thread through search as I've just installed Windows XP on my MBP, and was having difficulties using the trackpad etc.

Just to confirm - is it the case that I cannot left click by tapping the trackpad as I can in OS X?

Also, how do I right click? Something about two fingers, but I'm not sure how.

I put the OS X disk in to install the drivers after I'd installed Windows.

 

[kolax]

To right-click in Boot Camp, place two fingers on the trackpad and press the trackpad button.

Simple. That's how I right-click in OSX.

 

[adamfishercox]

CTRL+ALT+DELETE just is:
Fn+Option+Alt+Backspace.
Easy as pie, right?

Option and Alt are the same thing...

From right to left on the bottom row of the keyboard:

fn (only on some), control, option/alt, command, spacebar....

 

[zgnoud]

is it just me or does two finger tap (right button click) wont work unless the one finger; tap to click option is enabled? i really like the two finger but i find the single tap annoying while im navigating on the trackpad (and accidently click on links through the one tap feature).

 

[aforty]

Did some searching around and seems like this feature was in Bootcamp 1.4 but was later taken out. I also found a thread on Apple's forums about this, LETS ALL MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD there! (and their Feedback form as well)

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196518&tstart=15
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

 

[kolax]

is it just me or does two finger tap (right button click) wont work unless the one finger; tap to click option is enabled? i really like the two finger but i find the single tap annoying while im navigating on the trackpad (and accidently click on links through the one tap feature).

No. If you want to right-click with tapping disabled you place two fingers on the trackpad and press the track button.

 

[gloss]

Windows laptops have done this for ages, and I hate it in OS X and Windows. Tap to click has to be the most annoying non-feature I've ever seen. Atrociously annoying. I make a point to turn it OFF.

QFT.

I really don't see how people use it. I end up clicking accidentally every time I lift my finger to move it elsewhere on the trackpad.

 

[fred.buckley]

window tapping... broken forevermore?

Did some searching around and seems like this feature was in Bootcamp 1.4 but was later taken out. I also found a thread on Apple's forums about this, LETS ALL MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD there! (and their Feedback form as well)

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196518&tstart=15
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

good idea... thanks for the handy url's... done!... anyone else?

 

[Don Ellis]

PS. Off topic, but does anyone know of a hotkey program I can use to bring the HOME, END, PGUP and PGDN key functionality back to the MBP keyboard? I really miss those

Hold the Fn key as you press the arrow keys.

Don

 

[Teej guy]

Do you know of any Windows laptops that recognize tapping on the trackpad as a click? Because I've never seen it on a non-Apple computer.

Are you kidding me?

Come on man, every Windows laptop I've run into in at least the past 5 years has had that feature. Like in OS X, some manufacturers don't have it turned on by default, but the support is there and you can enable it in the control panel.

The fact that we can't turn it on when running Windows natively on Apple's hardware is just sheer laziness on their behalf, especially considering the amount of uproar it's created (check out the official Apple forums...there have already been a couple threads on the subject, hundreds of posts long...some of them have vanished, but they just spring back up again after being deleted.)

Either it's impossible to do due to some bizarre incompatibility (in which case it would be nice to be told) or Apple is just being LAZY.

I love my MBP, but when Apple advertises a feature, they should support the damn thing all the way, not half-assed like it is now.

 

[kockgunner]

Are you kidding me?

Come on man, every Windows laptop I've run into in at least the past 5 years has had that feature. Like in OS X, some manufacturers don't have it turned on by default, but the support is there and you can enable it in the control panel.

The fact that we can't turn it on when running Windows natively on Apple's hardware is just sheer laziness on their behalf, especially considering the amount of uproar it's created (check out the official Apple forums...there have already been a couple threads on the subject, hundreds of posts long...some of them have vanished, but they just spring back up again after being deleted.)

Either it's impossible to do due to some bizarre incompatibility (in which case it would be nice to be told) or Apple is just being LAZY.

I love my MBP, but when Apple advertises a feature, they should support the damn thing all the way, not half-assed like it is now.

some hp's don't have tap to click. and you can't turn it on. and it's not laziness on apple's part, they just don't want you to use macs for windows.

 

[Teej guy]

some hp's don't have tap to click. and you can't turn it on.

Then HP needs to sort itself out too...not having tap to click in this day and age is a joke. Just yesterday I was at a buddy's house, he's got an ollllllld Dell laptop...with tap to click.

and it's not laziness on apple's part, they just don't want you to use macs for windows.

Running Windows flawlessly on an Intel-Mac is being sold as a supported feature of Leopard. The only reason I bought Leopard the day it came out was to get the latest Bootcamp drivers and official support after the beta session had ended, and so far, they've shafted me and everyone else. They're not paying any attention to Boot Camp'ed users, and they're being careless. ****'s sake, the 2.1 bootcamp update changed the keyboard language for a bunch of people to FRENCH. That's obviously not a big issue, but it just shows how much effort is being put into this.