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Touchpad regions and gestures
Beyond acting as a mouse, the touchpad can be carved into zones. Each region is its own input that fires when a finger lands in it, so the pad becomes a row of soft buttons: four extra keys, a set of hotbar slots, or a tiny keyboard for someone who cannot reach the face buttons. A two-finger tap is an input too.
Drawing regions
- Press Calibrate Touchpad at the bottom of the editor and calibrate the pad first if you have not, so the map matches the surface.
- Switch to the Regions tab and draw rectangles on the pad. Name each one.
- Back in the editor, add a row with the input type Touchpad Region and pick a region from the list, or press Scan and touch the zone.
- Give it an output. Regions carry every option a button does: hold, double tap, macros, turbo, speech.
Gestures
The Touchpad Gesture input type recognises a two-finger tap: two fingers touch and lift within about a quarter of a second without moving. It binds like a button and does not conflict with scrolling or region taps, which makes it the natural right click. With finger 1 moving the pointer, the press as left click, and a two-finger tap as right click, the pad is a complete trackpad.
Ideas that work
- Left half and right half as Page Up and Page Down for reading.
- Three columns as Again, Good, Easy for Anki flashcards.
- A strip of five zones as the hotbar in a survival game.
- Four corners as Undo, Redo, Copy, Paste in a drawing app.
Questions
Can regions overlap with mouse motion?
Yes. A finger that lands in a region fires it; a finger that moves drives the motion rows. Keep regions near the edges if the middle is for pointing.
How many regions can I have?
As many as you can fit. The pad is about 5 cm by 2.5 cm, so six to eight remain comfortable to hit without looking.
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