[deathvole]

Hmmmm. In my Panther Trackpad settings I have a checkbox for "Ignore accidental trackpad input". But in the Help docs it says I should see "Ignore trackpad while typing".

Those to me are not necessarily the same thing.

A quick test verified this. "Ignore accidental trackpad input" prevents what I'll call trackpad overflow - two or more fingers hitting the trackpad at the same time in different places. Highly annoying without that setting. Well, if you're a klutz like me. ;-)

Turn it on/off, let a few fingers flail around on the pad and you'll see what I mean.

I'd LOVE to have both options. But for now it looks like all we have is "prevent trackpad overflow".

Cheers,

-DV

[blackguitars]

Mmm, not sure you've got it right.

"Ignore accidental trackpad input" and "Ignore trackpad while typing" are the same things - I think 10.2 stated it one way, and 10.3 had it another.

What this does (to me- I might be wrong) is disable the trackpad while you're typing. See, often, one's palms will hit the trackpad while typing, and the cursor will jump to another part of the page.

Try for yourself. Open a document. Place the cursor in the middle. Type with one hand, and hit the trackpad with the other. If enabled, the letters will keep on typing as if nothing happened.. If disabled, or unchecked, the cursor will jump to another part of the page.

[deathvole]

Have you actually tried it yourself though?

I just tried it with both settings (again), and while typing with one hand and "mousepadding" with the other (normal and random taps around the pad), the behavior is the same - the trackpad definitely does not ignore input while the keyboard is actively in use.

But spurious inputs (multiple fingers on the mousepad) are ignored when setting is active.

Try this - Turn off the setting, put two fingers wide apart on the mousepad and move them. The cursor moves. Turn it on, and you'll see that the cursor does not move unless only one finger is on the pad (generally).

Panther/G4 iBook.

[ccsccs7]

Originally posted by deathvole:
Have you actually tried it yourself though?

I just tried it with both settings (again), and while typing with one hand and "mousepadding" with the other (normal and random taps around the pad), the behavior is the same - the trackpad definitely does not ignore input while the keyboard is actively in use.

But spurious inputs (multiple fingers on the mousepad) are ignored when setting is active.

Try this - Turn off the setting, put two fingers wide apart on the mousepad and move them. The cursor moves. Turn it on, and you'll see that the cursor does not move unless only one finger is on the pad (generally).

Panther/G4 iBook.

Ignore trackpad while typing in 10.2 became Ignore accidental trackpad input. I tried your test. If you're typing faster than 10wpm (out of the air figure, but it means typing faster than really slow), taps on the trackpad are not translated to clicks. When the setting is off and the circumstances are the same, clicks are registered.

As for the multiple finger thing, I can get the slingshot effect by placing one finger down and tapping on the other side of the track pad. I can also make movement with two fingers spaced far apart (including clicks).