HP 80XL302 Using the Touchpad, Placing and Moving the Finger, Point and Click, Drag and Drop

NOTE: If you swap the left and right buttons, “tapping” on the touch- pad as an alternative method of pressing the left button will no longer be valid.

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Touchpad

Your notebook integrates a touchpad pointing device, compatible with the Microsoft Mouse and IBM PS/2 mouse, which allows you to take advantage of software that requires or recognizes a pointing device.

Figure 2-6. The Touchpad

Using the Touchpad

Placing and Moving the Finger

To use the touchpad, place your thumb or forefinger on the touchpad. The rectangular pad acts like a miniature duplicate of your display. As you slide your fingertip across the pad, the pointer, or cursor, on the screen moves in the same direction across the screen as your fingertip moves across the pad.

Point and Click

When you have placed the cursor over the icon, menu item or command that you wish to execute, you can press the left button once or twice to execute the command. This procedure is called “Point and click” or “point and double-click”. On the touchpad, you can execute point and clicking even more rapidly. Instead of clicking by pressing the left button, you can just tap gently anywhere on the rectangular pad of the touchpad. Tap twice rapidly to execute a double-click. Unlike a traditionally pointing device, the whole pad acts as if it were a left button and each tap on the pad is equivalent to pressing the left button.

Drag and Drop

You can execute commands or move files by using “drag and drop”. In drag and drop, you activate a file by pointing to it and clicking. However, when you click the button, you do not release the button

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