Flip 3D trick with multi-touch gesture

Get the driver from this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=407994

I'm using 13.2.1.0 with my 1340 because the newer ones haven't worked. Next, navigate to the Device Settings tab, and click Settings. From there, the fun begins.

Go to Application Gestures, "Three Fingers Down," and select Configure. At that point, you'll need this command:

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe dwmapi.dll #105

Copy that, select "Add" and paste it into the command text box. Name it Flip 3D or whatever you want, and select OK, OK, and click Apply. Now, make sure you have Three Finger Flick enabled. This will let you scroll between the applications that are running in Flip 3D. Once you get the hang of it, it's a very cool and easy way to get around. You know, or not. Whatever.

 

I got the latest 14.0.3 from http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers

And the Three Finger Flick is working without ease [no adding whatever commands]..

 

no the command is for flip 3d in windows lol so you can switch thru open apps like pressing the windows button +tab except by placing three fingers down

 

Yeah, the 3 finger flick is different from the 3 finger down. But, once 3 finger down is configured to launch Flip 3D, you can use 3 finger flick to flip through the windows.

 

That's legit. Great stuff, man. I can't wait to try it out!

How many 3-finger commands are there? Two or three? 3-finger down means holding down three fingers right? NOT moving three fingers down? Moving three fingers down is the flick?

Or are there three 3-finger gestures?

1. 3-finger flick: flick 3 fingers in some direction
2. 3-finger click: hold 3 fingers on the touchpad
3. 3-finger down: move 3 fingers in a downward direction

~Ibrahim~

 

Tnx. Three Fingers Down is more like "touch" (or click as you mentioned) than "sweep down." You just have to get them to land at nearly the same time, and the software will interpret. The flick is moving them all in one direction laterally. IE and Firefox support this command as forward and backward in history, but Google Chrome still doesn't interpret it. I usually start my sweep just off the pad and land on the edge, dragging across.

 

Haha, yeah! I used it to go back and forward on web-pages on FF. Huh, wonder why it doesn't work in Chrome? I stopped using Chrome after PDFs stopped opening (even after I reinstalled Adobe Reader) in it. Had to have my fav. page bookmarks, so I got the Speed Dial extension.

Thanks for the clarification; +rep!



~Ibrahim~

 

Thanks!

 

I see. Sorry for my misunderstanding. That's cool ! Anyway, I'm using the latest Driver from synaptics and that still works fine !

 

Wondering is there anyway to toggle Show Desktop with Three Hand Down, it would come in handy

 

im sure there is you just have to find the file extension which i do not know

 

Using this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355

Create that file in notepad, save it with the appropriate extension wherever you want it, and then create a command that points to the new file. So, if you save it in your Documents directory, it would be:

%userprofile%\Documents\show-desktop.scf

And I'd name the command Toggle Desktop or whatever. That should work.

 

Very nice, I never had anything set for the 3 fingers down since there didn't seem to be much use for it.

 

Tried .scf. Apparently it doesn't work but only for .exe files

 

Well, *maybe* you could make a batch file that calls the .scf, and then compile the .bat file into a .exe. I'd just Google around for something, but here's a thread I found asking about them:

http://www.msfn.org/board/cmd-bat-exe-compiler-best-t34446.html

Make sure it compiles to EXE and not just COM, as that may not help you either.

 

Is there any way to scroll through the windows with a gesture like the one used to skip through albums on the iphone? cover flow is the name I think.

 

Have you tried Flip 3D yet? That's kind of like it. What OS are you running? To try it, use the Windows Key+Tab and just keep clicking the Tab key to move through the windows that are open.

 

thanks for this!! i'm running Win7 with the latest synaptics drivers (off their website), on my 1340 and it's flawless, no MacOS for me please!!

 

Student Driver: Off course. I'm just looking for a way to scroll through the windows with just finger gestures _after_ the 3d windows are up and running (like the way on iphone). That would make it a lot more fun. I'm running Win7.

 

That's where the Three Finger Flick comes in. You swipe 3 fingers left or right, and that changes the direction the windows are moving. Then, just move the mouse on the window you want and click or tap it.

 

Strange. I've enabled the swiping, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm running v.13.2.1

 

OK, if you have Three Finger Flick enabled, then the best way to get it working is to back away from the laptop, and with your middle knuckles directly over the buttons, use your middle 3 fingers and swipe COMPLETELY from right to left, and left to right, letting your fingers run off the edge of the pad. As you get better with it you can do it from different angles. It's a bit awkward at first but you get used to it.

 

I just tried this using a demo of Quick Batch File Compiler in an XP virtual machine, and it will work just fine. Unfortunately, the demo includes this "reminder" (it's an annoying pause) so the file isn't all that useful. But it does appear to work, and should be OK. In fact, you can probably convert just about any command that Windows can do like this if you really wanted to.

 

Hmm, thanks though. I will just stick with Flip for the moment. Another question, it seems we could add many commands but which is the one on default ? Is it the first one ? How do we switch between the commands ?

 

It just launches them all at once. So, in Win7 if you use Flip 3D for one command, and resmon.exe for another, you will see Flip 3D come up, and then the resmon.exe window slide up as the last window (or "card") in the stack. Pretty cool.