• Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
  • It's time to vote for your favorite Pokémon Battle Revolution protagonist in our new weekly protagonist poll! Click here to cast your vote and let us know which PBR protagonist you like most.
  • Welcome to PokéCommunity! Register now and join one of the best fan communities on the 'net to talk Pokémon and more! We are not affiliated with The Pokémon Company or Nintendo.
    Register

turn it off and on again

Status
Not open for further replies.
Tsutarja said:
How long have you been using said touchpad for? If it hasn't been long, then honestly I'd say it'd just take time to getting used to, and that's all.

If you want the pinch-zoom feature enabled, then I'd probably disable the two-finger scrolling at the same time that way they don't conflict. However, in the end, it's all up to you on what you want to do. :P
Click to expand...

Mmm, it's only been a few months. I guess I've always unknowingly placed two fingers on a touchpad at the same time, inadvertently activating the gestures which come off as jarring to me as a result. I had gestures fully disabled on my previous laptop.

It's the other way around, actually. Ahah. I like the scrolling feature but the pinch zoom has become more annoying than helpful. I could be casually browsing a webpage when bam! The browser zooms in 200% due to my clumsy fingers. xD
 
LeviathanX said:
Mmm, it's only been a few months. I guess I've always unknowingly placed two fingers on a touchpad at the same time, inadvertently activating the gestures which come off as jarring to me as a result. I had gestures fully disabled on my previous laptop.

It's the other way around, actually. Ahah. I like the scrolling feature but the pinch zoom has become more annoying than helpful. I could be casually browsing a webpage when bam! The browser zooms in 200% due to my clumsy fingers. xD
Click to expand...

Sounds like an overly sensitive implementation of pinch zooming! Personally, if activating both two-finger scrolling and pinch zooming causes issues, I'd turn off pinch zooming first. Two-finger scrolling is way too useful to give up today.
 
Twiggy said:
Sounds like an overly sensitive implementation of pinch zooming! Personally, if activating both two-finger scrolling and pinch zooming causes issues, I'd turn off pinch zooming first. Two-finger scrolling is way too useful to give up today.
Click to expand...

Aye, I'm gonna poke around in the settings to sort this out. And it truly is! Like woah, soon as I discovered it, I questioned what exactly was I doing for the last few years, haha. As for pinch zooming, I noticed too that when I willingly want to use it, it's not entirely....'accurate' (probs wrong word to use, but w/e). Like, I'd motion to zoom in, slowly, but rather have the zoom level rise or fall by increments of 10%, it'd suddenly jump around by 20% or more, making zooming back to 100% tricky. :(
 
I hate track pads. I have a shortcut key to disable the thing entirely, because the palm detection is really crappy and will sometimes click if I touch it with the base of my thumb or something. The only time I use it is when a website decides to force me to use a mouse. I find using a mouse to be slow so I use only the keyboard for most tasks.
 
LeviathanX said:
Aye, I'm gonna poke around in the settings to sort this out. And it truly is! Like woah, soon as I discovered it, I questioned what exactly was I doing for the last few years, haha. As for pinch zooming, I noticed too that when I willingly want to use it, it's not entirely....'accurate' (probs wrong word to use, but w/e). Like, I'd motion to zoom in, slowly, but rather have the zoom level rise or fall by increments of 10%, it'd suddenly jump around by 20% or more, making zooming back to 100% tricky. :(
Click to expand...

Ouch! Sometimes I still find certain trackpads to be dreadful, all things considered. It's like there's a huge gap between the worst and the best. Take pinch-zooming, for example. The worst pads just simulate CTRL + mouse wheel, while the best actually initiate the built-in procedure for pinch-zooming if in something that does support touch input properly. The latter is much more nicer than the former.

Team Fail said:
Ever since I've gotten my mouse I've realized just how much I hate trackpads. I don't think I'll be using it anytime soon now. I do like the gestures that it has though. If I initiate the scrolling on the right-hand side, I can continue the scroll if I start drawing circles without lifting my finger from the initial scroll. Then, I can go up or down the page by swirling circles in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. It's really cool.
Click to expand...

It indeed is, though I personally prefer content-scroll two-finger scrolling. Mostly because it feels just right when you're used to doing it (albeit with a single finger) on touchscreen devices.

Starry Windy said:
I used to not pretty fond of trackpad as well, since I've been getting used to using mouse for long, and in my old laptop's case, sometimes it's not working after some period of time. However, I'm starting to get along with it nowadays, even though I'll still using mouse more often.
Click to expand...

Mmm hmm. A mouse is still much more comfortable to use for longer periods of time, so long as its shape is satisfactory. Personally even I can find myself wanting for a mouse when I have to spend extended amounts of time on a laptop, even with a good trackpad implementation.
 
Touched said:
I hate track pads. I have a shortcut key to disable the thing entirely, because the palm detection is really crappy and will sometimes click if I touch it with the base of my thumb or something. The only time I use it is when a website decides to force me to use a mouse. I find using a mouse to be slow so I use only the keyboard for most tasks.
Click to expand...

This exact thing happens with me on this laptop. I really am starting to consider buying an external mouse, or at least get better at moving around using just the keyboard.

Twiggy said:
Ouch! Sometimes I still find certain trackpads to be dreadful, all things considered. It's like there's a huge gap between the worst and the best. Take pinch-zooming, for example. The worst pads just simulate CTRL + mouse wheel, while the best actually initiate the built-in procedure for pinch-zooming if in something that does support touch input properly. The latter is much more nicer than the former.
Click to expand...

If only there was a common middle-man version of that built into every new laptop going forward. </3

Tsutarja said:
I guess I'm the only one that thinks a touchpad is pretty comfortable, but maybe it's my laptop. :P
Click to expand...

I'd have to agree with this, as much as the current touchpad annoys me. xD I don't have much of a desk or a proper table to place my laptop on here, so using an external mouse would be tricky, whereas the touchpad is more convenient.
 
Tsutarja said:
I guess I'm the only one that thinks a touchpad is pretty comfortable, but maybe it's my laptop. :P
Click to expand...

Objectively, mine isn't that bad. I have a Dell XPS 13, which is pretty nice as far as trackpads are concerned. I just hate pointer devices because they're so slow. Keyboards enable you to get to a level of speed that is simple unattainable with a mouse/trackpad/touchscreen (all three of which are in the XPS 13).
 
LeviathanX said:
Yeah I was using the terminal for a bit to commit some files. Tried doing it with powershell but got told that something was missing, so I went and got another CLI to commuicate with Git. Thanks for the info, I'll certainly look into it. I'm so not a fan of trying to commit suff through my IDE.
Click to expand...
You should download Console2 and use it to skin the Git terminal and also PowerShell. It's a bit tricky, the solution I found to work on 7 was on Stack Overflow and involved fiddling with some command-line arguments and shortcuts with Console2, but... it's worth it. Both CMD and PowerShell are uuuuugly.


I've found a clean Windows 7 install to take up a massive 14GiB of space. On its 20GiB drive that is certainly not enough for my 11GiB install of VS 2015 C++.

This is honestly just pathetic. After cleaning up unused files my entire Linux install, an install containing 932 packages including CUDA, WINE, LibreOffice, MariaDB, Mono, and GCC... takes up 16GiB altogether. I should remove CUDA lol, I have integrated graphics on this laptop <_<
 
Last edited:
Nick said:
You should download Console2 and use it to skin the Git terminal and also PowerShell. It's a bit tricky, the solution I found to work on 7 was on Stack Overflow and involved fiddling with some command-line arguments and shortcuts with Console2, but... it's worth it. Both CMD and PowerShell are uuuuugly.


I've found a clean Windows 7 install to take up a massive 14GiB of space. On its 20GiB drive that is certainly not enough for my 11GiB install of VS 2015 C++.

This is honestly just pathetic. After cleaning up unused files my entire Linux install, an install containing 932 packages including CUDA, WINE, LibreOffice, MariaDB, Mono, and GCC... takes up 16GiB altogether. I should remove CUDA lol, I have integrated graphics on this laptop <_<
Click to expand...

It indeed is, but one should also compare what you'd actually be getting :)

Either way, 20 GB? Ouch! That sounds awfully small for a system drive these days. (It's kind of fun to work with that, though.)
 
Nick said:
You should download Console2 and use it to skin the Git terminal and also PowerShell. It's a bit tricky, the solution I found to work on 7 was on Stack Overflow and involved fiddling with some command-line arguments and shortcuts with Console2, but... it's worth it. Both CMD and PowerShell are uuuuugly.
Click to expand...

I think I've heard someone mention that to me before. I'll definitely check it out! Working with the CMD isn't so bad for me, but PowerShell? What even is the point of it!
 
LeviathanX said:
I think I've heard someone mention that to me before. I'll definitely check it out! Working with the CMD isn't so bad for me, but PowerShell? What even is the point of it!
Click to expand...
It's generally a more powerful console for Windows. Advantages it has over CMD are that it can access any drive letter pretty much (and probably network locations), behaves more like Bash in that it doesn't let you run execs in the current directory without .\... it really should be the default for anyone considering console work.



Earlier last night I got my project, Sapphire, to compile for x64 in Visual Studio 2015 as well as GCC 5.2! It's really rewarding seeing the same exact code work on two vastly different OSes, not to mention a good bit interesting seeing compiler quirks with what they complain about and what they don't. I also learned that unlike ARM7, x86 bit shifts do not wrap. xD

Twiggy said:
Either way, 20 GB? Ouch! That sounds awfully small for a system drive these days. (It's kind of fun to work with that, though.)
Click to expand...
I'm rather limited when it comes to space on my SSD, and don't want to use the last 30 GiB or so of my 160GB external drive because I need that space and it's over USB 2. My laptop does not have USB 3, but my mother says she may be able to drop $50 + change to get me a 1TB 2.5" HDD and a case for it anyway. (I want to run multiple Windows VMs.)
 
I'm spending some time here fixing up a C++ INI/Config parser library I found on CodeProject. I'm removing all of the uses of raw pointers, and adding in exceptions to replace sloppy error code holder references (passing a variable by reference to be set in the event something goes wrong, this isn't C). I think I'm even going to add in some new little functionality, too.

If you take it as-is, the thing supports hashpound-based comments (#), agnosticism to the spaces surrounding the equals sign of a declaration, and nesting! starting with the line name = ( and ending with a ) on its own line, you can nest up to an arbitrary length. This is what I found to be most cool about the library.

Since I'm such a nut for compiled code, I'm going to have it set up as a shared library (a DLL on Windows) and reference it to both save compile time and modularize my application.

It's such a relief to not have to write this sort of stuff from scratch. ^^';
 
Just to let everyone know. I found out about this last night. You should turn off p2p updates. You can do it under settings-updates and security-advanced options (under windows update tab)-Choose how updates are delivered once here click the circle for "PCs on Local Network". This will keep people from wasting data.
 
Tsutarja said:
I plugged in my Dell Venue 8 Pro to charge early this morning and it had no battery. 8 hours later, and it only went to 87%, and this was while it was shut down too. Jeez.

Also, for some reason, when I opened it, this tiny keyboard appeared on the screen while it was charging, and it was shut down, too.

Spoiler:
Click to expand...

You may want to microwave your RAM and drill holes in your disk platters.
 
Touched said:
You may want to microwave your RAM and drill holes in your disk platters.
Click to expand...
I don't even wanna know how you know to do that...

Anyway, you should get on IRC. I have a good few questions :)
 
tfw you accidentally invent an assembly language trying to come up with ways to improve C++

god my head hurts. and I need to rethink what I'm improving upon, because evidently one doesn't simply "improve" C++.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top