Synaptic Absolution (Updated 1/30. Sorry about that.)

chan

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chan 2008-01-25T08:20:09+00:00

Hi, I just "borrowed" from work, but got this message when opening your application

"Component 'SynCtrl.dll' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

The SynAbs.exe file is only 40kb. Any idea what's wrong?

peppy

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peppy 2008-01-25T10:06:05+00:00

This means that the laptop you are using doesn't have a synaptic touchpad. In short, you can't use this app.

TiZ

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TiZ 2008-01-31T05:01:23+00:00

Not necessarily. When I switched to XP from Vista, I had that same strange problem. I even had the blasted source of all everything and it didn't work. I fixed it, but due to lack of interest toward the program, I chose not to bother with updating it.

I've uploaded a zip file, and this time it has the DLLs in with it for good measure. Give it a shot and see if it works now.

http://eternaleon.googlepages.com/SynAbs.zip

I've also realized that using SynAbs in normal Windows activity quickly becomes a pain in the ass. Good thing I added that Ctrl+Alt+A shortcut.

Synaptic Absolution: Turn your laptop touchpad into a mini-tablet!
Beatmaps:
- Shinedown - Devour
- Nobuo Uematsu - Dark Saint
- Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me
- Sixx:A.M - Life Is Beautiful

devkit4384

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devkit4384 2008-02-02T05:38:25+00:00

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TiZ

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TiZ 2008-02-03T07:30:07+00:00

Sorry. Most touchpads can only use fingers. Some can use pens, but I don't know of any, nor do I know if they'll work. This program maps the corners of the touchpad to the corners of your screen, so using your finger won't be that bad.

That is, if this program works for you. I still haven't recieved any feedback on it yet.

Synaptic Absolution: Turn your laptop touchpad into a mini-tablet!
Beatmaps:
- Shinedown - Devour
- Nobuo Uematsu - Dark Saint
- Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me
- Sixx:A.M - Life Is Beautiful

hyacinth_girl

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hyacinth_girl 2008-09-10T14:34:09+00:00

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awp 2008-11-21T19:04:39+00:00

Yay, this laptop has a Synaptic and it works with SynAbs.

This will take some zetta getting used to.

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Larto 2008-11-26T21:08:24+00:00

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JFRN

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JFRN 2012-07-25T16:18:33+00:00

Don't work for me, i have a Synaptics ClickPad 7.4, i wanna test it, i'm in Windows 7 x64, i have two mouse of 1600DPI and a Wacom Intuos4, can you support the program for windows 7.

The Error:
Error '-2147418113 (8000ffff)' Error en tiempo de ejecución :
Error de Automatización

I have windows in spanish.

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nanashiRei

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nanashiRei 2012-07-26T11:05:49+00:00

Just randomly thrown in:

Do you think this could be done with the non-absolute Bamboo Multi-Touch surface? I would love to give it a try with my fingers on the tablet, but it only supports relative positioning (Wacom states: Since you don't use the screen as touch surface you don't know where the cursor is. -> hence they won't add a mode for absolute positioning :'( )

They said on the Wacom forum the drivers delivers absolute positions as you can see here:

(You can get there by Holding Ctrl and pressing the "Info" button in the settings)

Arczii

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Arczii 2012-11-19T09:53:21+00:00

@TiZ
Great job. I use homemade pen of this:

It cost me a candy-bar price + time ~10min, haha

It rly works like tablet, yeah I can play even insane maps

PonBalloon

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PonBalloon 2013-01-09T05:38:12+00:00

I also have a 7.4 synaptic touchpad and i get the following error

"System Error &H80004002 (-2147467262). No such interface supported"

Arnold0

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Arnold0 2013-01-30T15:09:22+00:00

I wanted to try, but my computer don't agree D:

(Inb4 not compatible with windows8)

Winshley

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Winshley 2013-02-01T10:59:46+00:00

What a bump!

Anyways, I tried this and worked on my laptop. Probably because the laptop is old which runs Windows Vista. The program is made 5 years ago, so don't expect it to work on newer machine.

Arnold0

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Arnold0 2013-02-01T11:05:10+00:00

Winshley wrote:
What a bump!

Anyways, I tried this and worked on my laptop. Probably because the laptop is old which runs Windows Vista. The program is made 5 years ago, so don't expect it to work on newer machine.

My laptop run windows 8 but it's 4 years old and when I got it it was on windows vista D:

Winshley

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Winshley 2013-02-02T09:10:46+00:00

That probably because the way Synaptics driver are developed for Windows 8 differs to that for Windows Vista.

You might wanna try dual-booting Windows Vista then...

Kousaka Honoka

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Kousaka Honoka 2013-02-17T15:36:06+00:00

Arnold0 wrote:
Winshley wrote:
What a bump!

Anyways, I tried this and worked on my laptop. Probably because the laptop is old which runs Windows Vista. The program is made 5 years ago, so don't expect it to work on newer machine.
My laptop run windows 8 but it's 4 years old and when I got it it was on windows vista D:

same problem encountered, seems it doesn't work on win8...

Mithos

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Mithos 2013-02-17T21:08:17+00:00

I can confirm that this runs perfectly well on the run of the mill windows 7 machine. I wish I could make it click when I tap it though.

xkre

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xkre 2013-04-16T02:05:30+00:00

Nice tool.

For win 7, I can confirm it works using the v15 driver but not v16 driver.

asl97

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asl97 2013-06-23T14:24:01+00:00

for those who play on linux, you might like to take a look at this:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/239823/u ... ics-tablet

it say ubuntu but it works on fedora too, and maybe others that use xorg

I have to get the absolute position of a finger on the touchpad rather than just relative movement.

the synaptics driver doesn't do this, but the evdev driver does. So you need to configure your X server to use the evdev driver for the touchpad instead. The following configuration snippet will do that for you provided you're running server 1.8 or later.
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "evdev touchpad"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Driver "evdev"
    Option "Mode" "absolute"
EndSection
Save this as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-evdev-touchpad.conf and restart the server. Note that this only changes the behaviour of the touchpad itself, not the data in the events but then again that data is always absolute anyway. Also, by using evdev instead of synaptics you're losing the ability for two-finger scrolling, tapping, etc.

to disable it, just delete that conf file and restart the server

i use my psp as controller with fusa gamepad and Xpadder, but there no icon for it, so i putting it in my signature :]

SPOILER

please also note that i prefer to use :] instead of :)

4B: <,^, ∆, ○
5B: <,^,> and □, ∆, ○
6B:<,^,>,□, ∆, ○
7B: L,<,^, > and □, ∆, ○,R
8B: L,<,^, >,□, ∆, ○,R

tresserian

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tresserian 2013-07-26T14:41:54+00:00

I have a problem here, when I start it, it says "Incorrigible paradox detected. Aborting." Any idea why?

asl97

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asl97 2013-07-26T15:18:03+00:00

MRStres wrote:
I have a problem here, when I start it, it says "Incorrigible paradox detected. Aborting." Any idea why?

maybe incompatible touchpad?
is your touchpad a synaptics touchpad and using the synaptics driver?

i use my psp as controller with fusa gamepad and Xpadder, but there no icon for it, so i putting it in my signature :]

SPOILER

please also note that i prefer to use :] instead of :)

4B: <,^, ∆, ○
5B: <,^,> and □, ∆, ○
6B:<,^,>,□, ∆, ○
7B: L,<,^, > and □, ∆, ○,R
8B: L,<,^, >,□, ∆, ○,R

tresserian

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tresserian 2013-07-26T16:14:48+00:00

asl97 wrote:
MRStres wrote:
I have a problem here, when I start it, it says "Incorrigible paradox detected. Aborting." Any idea why?
maybe incompatible touchpad?
is your touchpad a synaptics touchpad and using the synaptics driver?

Well, first it's Alps, after I installed the driver, it became synaptic. Is that the problem?

asl97

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asl97 2013-07-26T16:35:16+00:00

MRStres wrote:
Well, first it's Alps, after I installed the driver, it became synaptic. Is that the problem?

it works on my laptop, mine is SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad, note the word, Synaptic

so it could be the problem if yours isn't synaptic, not all touchpad give absolution, so maybe yours is one of those

the app would only work with a touchpad that got absolution.

to find out what touchpad yours is,
on linux:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

on window:

idk, try googling it

i use my psp as controller with fusa gamepad and Xpadder, but there no icon for it, so i putting it in my signature :]

SPOILER

please also note that i prefer to use :] instead of :)

4B: <,^, ∆, ○
5B: <,^,> and □, ∆, ○
6B:<,^,>,□, ∆, ○
7B: L,<,^, > and □, ∆, ○,R
8B: L,<,^, >,□, ∆, ○,R

XPJ38

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XPJ38 2013-07-26T18:21:24+00:00

asl97 wrote:
on window:
idk, try googling it

Lol

It is located in the Device Manager, under "Mice and other pointing devices".

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Soinou

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Soinou 2013-07-26T21:53:48+00:00

Edit : nvm, the synaptics touchpad was on my previous laptop ._.

finalexistence

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finalexistence 2013-07-27T15:47:38+00:00

cant download in the given link anyone got another link
?

inspiration to play this game

Muzika

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Muzika 2013-09-05T13:17:55+00:00

i don't understand how to use this, can somebody explain to me? :c

EDIT: nvm, i just played around with the program and got it to work XD

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CrescentX

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CrescentX 2013-09-05T13:48:14+00:00

Could anyone help me with the error//////// System Error &H80004002 (-2147467262).

iceandele

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iceandele 2013-09-25T19:48:39+00:00

Has anyone got this working on a windows 8 machine?

Espionage724

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Espionage724 2013-10-01T23:41:45+00:00

iceandele wrote:
Has anyone got this working on a windows 8 machine?

No luck here on 8.1.

On Linux, one may be able to switch between Absolute and Relative mode with xinput set-mode <device name> ABSOLUTE (<device name> being either the full name or the id of your touchpad (without the < >); use the command xinput to get this info). Switch ABSOLUTE to RELATIVE when you want to switch back, or just reboot. May or may not work depending on other factors (was able to do so on Ubuntu 13.04, but not 13.10).

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darklink_perry

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darklink_perry 2013-11-20T14:06:36+00:00

I get a System Error &H80004002 (-2147467262). No such interface supported error

I'm going to assume it's because I'm running Windows 8, because I do have a synaptics touchpad. Any plans on fixing that?
Also, Visual Basic is a bit of an outdated language. You should consider using C# instead.

Lure_old_1

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Lure_old_1 2013-11-30T22:23:19+00:00

Does anyone know if this works on Windows 8?

Espionage724

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Espionage724 2013-11-30T22:41:42+00:00