Friday, February 6, 2015

Alps Apoint Inverted scrolling

As from a previous post, Found out that two finger scrolling with my Toshiba Satellite Z30-A 1D2 is inverted for some reason, and no way to change that from the GUI configuration utility.

System:
Toshiba Satellite Z30-A 1D2
Windows 8.1 64 bit
Bios ver 3.40
Alps Apoint driver : 8.100.303.446

The solution:

  1. Get into regedit ( start-> type regedit-> enter)
  2. Get to registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint
  3. Change InvertScrollFlag value (from 0x33) to 0x00 (meaning double click on the value name "InvertScrollFlag", type "0" and click "OK")
  4. Get to registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Alps\Apoint
  5. Do step 3 again
  6. Restart computer

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Multiple GoogleDrive instances

Will need to hack the registry

VLC middleclick pause

Using autohotkey:

  1. Install AutoHotKey:
    www.autohotkey.com 
  2. create a file named:
    VLCMiddleClick.ahk
  3. Write this code inside:
    SetTitleMatchMode 2
    SetTitleMatchMode Slow

    #IfWinActive,VLC
    {
        ~MButton::
          
            MouseGetPos _, _, _, ctrl ; Get name of control under mouse pointer
            if (SubStr(ctrl, 1, 7) == "VLC MSW") ; Is it the VLC video control?
            {
                SendInput, {Space} ; Play/pause VLC
            }
            return
    }
  4. Save file
  5. Right click on the file and click "Compile Script"
  6. Click on Start menu
  7. Type "Task Scheduler" and enter
  8. In the "Action" menu, select "Create Task"
  9. In the "General" tab - make sure "Run with highest privileges" is checked
  10. In the "Triggers" tab - Click "New", and select for "Begin the task" the option: "At log on" and click "OK"
  11. In the "Triggers" tab - Click "New", and Browse to your compiled script(not the .ahk, but the .exe), and click "OK"
  12. Click "OK" to finish the task creation
  13. Reboot



Tested on system:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Core I7-4770k
16GB RAM DDR3
VLC ver 2.1.5
Autohotkeys ver 1.0.48.05

Alps Apoint middle click

Just bought Toshiba Satellite Z30-A 1D2,
What a wonderful notebook, Just NO Middle Click available in the touchpad,
And especially the Two-finger tap to get the middle click.
What a shame, I could get crazy about that,
but finally I found out the solution.
This is tested under the following system:

Toshiba Satellite Z30-A 1D2
Windows 8.1 64 bit
Bios ver 3.40
Alps Apoint driver : 8.100.303.446

The solution:

  1. Get into regedit ( start-> type regedit-> enter)
  2. Get to registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint\TouchPad
  3. Change 2TapFunc value (from 0x0d) to 0x0e (meaning double click on the value name "2TapFunc", type "e" and click "OK")
  4. Change Enable2Tap value to 0x01
  5. Get to registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Alps\Apoint\TouchPad
  6. Do steps 3 and 4 again
  7. Restart computer

On a personal note:
I an very disappointed with Alps driver,
The GUI configuration utility is very limiting, and all I could get with it is to enable 2 finger tap, but not configure it to be used as middle click.

If someone tests this, please comment here with notes, systems tested and results...