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Multi-touch Trackpad MacBook Pro

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  1. 2009-05-28 02:37:08 UTC
    Hi,

    I had made the following entry on the Apple Discussions forum but have not got any information that I could make use of. Could you please make something like the iScroll2 for the "Multi-touch" Trackpad of the MacBook Pro.

    Link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1752688&tstart=0

    ====Start Quote from above link:====
    "Tripple tap and drag" to select multiple words
    Posted: 15/10/2008 13:24

    In the latest release, it is said:

    “The trackpad has no button: It is the button. With a smooth glass surface, this spacious trackpad brings even more Multi-Touch gestures and functionality to the 15-inch MacBook Pro.”

    I hardly ever used the trackpad button because that's how it always was. In the PowerBook G3 and in the MacBooks without the multi-touch feature, you would be able to select multiple words with a triple tap and drag "gesture" on the trackpad.

    ... but with the Multi-Touch Trackpad on the MacBook Pro of the early 2008 edition, this feature has been eliminated and the button HAS to be used.

    So, how does the NEW Multi-touch track pad on the new release of the MacBook Pro -without the button- achieve this? and can it be retrofitted to the Early 2008 release of the Mac Book Pro?

    BTW, I had posted the following question in the MacBook Pro (Original) forum. There was no one who could respond to this question or to even comment on the matter...

    >It seems very mysterious that the "Tripple click and drag" to select multiple adjacent words no longer works for me on my multi-touch trackpad MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.5.5 installed.
    >On the trackpad the click translates to "tap". I want to be able to select WHOLE words with the tripple-tap and then drag (on the third tap) to select adjacent whole words, not part of the word.
    >I checked this out for the PowerBook G4 with MacOS 10.4.11 and it works perfectly.
    >So what's gone wrong with the Multi-touch trackpad? Or, what new click sequence is it that I need to adapt to now? I am just wondering why should there be a reduction in features when upgrading to the latest...
    >I have not heard any one else talk about it or is just me?
    >Thanks for your help...
    >FiL"

    I hope there will be someone brave enough to respond to this post now that the NEW MacBook Pro -without the trackpad button- has been released.

    FiL
    MacBook Pro 15.4in, 2.4Ghz Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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