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Title: Enable Trackpoint scrolling for MC 13 on Thinkpads (and others)
Post by: gpvillamil on June 04, 2009, 09:23:51 pm

Those of you with IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads may have noticed that middle-button scrolling with the TrackPoint does not seem to work with Media Center 13. (This is true also for other systems using Synaptics drivers, such as some Dell machines.)

Basically the Synaptics driver looks for a regular Windows scroll bar before sending scroll commands. You need to override this process and get it to send regular mouse wheel commands for specific programs that don't use the regular Windows scroll bars.

Here is the fix (it also works for a bunch of other programs, such as Ableton Live):

1. Find a file called tp4table.dat. It may be in C:\Program Files\Lenovo\TrackPoint or C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP, or possibly in C:\Windows\system32

2. Back it up

3. Open the file and scroll down to the section with the comment "Pass 1 rules"

4. Insert the following lines before that section (ie before the line of ;;;;)

; J River Media Center
*,*,Media Center 13.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

5. Save the file

6. Reboot

You should now have middle-button scrolling with TrackPoint working in MC13!

Title: Re: Enable Trackpoint scrolling for MC 13 on Thinkpads (and others)
Post by: johnnyboy on June 06, 2009, 02:26:21 am

thank you thank you thank you!! :)