Disable touch pad

[Magnum]

I would like to find out what APIs I will need to turn off the touchpad.

I did a search of "disable device" here and the old forum.

Andy

[dedndave]

most laptops have an OEM setup program that allows you to disable the touchpad
if you don't have it already installed, likely you can download it from the mfg site

[CommonTater]

I would like to find out what APIs I will need to turn off the touchpad.

I did a search of "disable device" here and the old forum.

Andy

Actually... take a look in your control panel, mouse settings... often there's an option to disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged into a USB port.

If that's not what you want... go to Control Panel -> Device Manager ... find the touchpad on that list... Right Click ->  Properties and select "Do not use this device".

[Magnum]

I want to do it programatically.

I installed a device driver kit and am working on some code now.

Andy

[sinsi]

Is it a Synaptics touchpad? Some info here but it uses COM.
Other suggestions I found used WMI, possibly even worse than COM 

[Magnum]

Thanks sinsi. I will see where this leads me.  :t

I tried devcon to disable it, this will be one of those long learning moments.

Andy

4.1. Command set
The Synaptics TouchPad accepts the full standard PS/2 "mouse" command set. This section describes the mouse commands, along with any special properties of those commands as they are implemented on the Synaptics TouchPad:
• $FF Reset
• $FE Resend
• $FC Error
• $FA Acknowledge
• $F6 Set Defaults
• $F5 Disable

[sinsi]

Those PS/2 commands are sent via the OUT instruction, that needs a driver - no in/out from userland.
Apparently devcon has trouble on 64-bit windows, the ddk is supposed to have the source code.
It's just a wrapper for a lot of setup api functions. I will have a look through my iso's for the source.

[Magnum]

Thanks sinsi.

I have the source code from the Synoptics.

Trying to figure out these messages. I am using Dev C++ which seems like a pretty good program.

16   0   C:\z_keep\SynKit.h   In file included from C:\z_keep\SynKit.h
7      C:\z_keep\Disabler.cpp                    from C:\z_keep\Disabler.cpp
6   20   C:\z_keep\SynWraps.h   comdef.h: No such file or directory.

[dedndave]

Other suggestions I found used WMI, possibly even worse than COM

WMI uses COM, so yah - but it's not that bad   :P
Edgar and Erol have both done some WMI examples - if you look in the old forum
also, i use qWord's macros for COM - makes things pretty simple
of course, those guys make everything look easy - lol

[Magnum]

I installed VC++ since that is what my code is designed for, but it's kinda slow.

I tried to set my source code directory, and it can't even see a .cpp file. 

Then VC loads up a call home prog without permission and changed my default for open asm files.

That's O.K, they did good with XP. :-)

Andy

[Vortex]

Hi Magnum,

You would like to visit Japheth's COM & Assembly page :

http://japheth.de/COMnASM.html

Japheth has a deep understanding of COM, he's an expert of this area.