How to write software for my touchpad?

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Published on 2009-11-05T20:56:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 5:41 UTC
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I have some ideas for improvements on my touchpad, ranging from the run of the mill scroll horizontally at the bottom, tapzones for right click, to more complicated ones. But I have no idea where to get started? I'm working on Windows 7 Home Premium, its an Asus laptop, and I have none of these options natively available to me. Regardless, I want to write something that anyone can use.

Where would I start?

(it'd be nice to write in c++? is that possible? what are the requirements here? what language would be recommended?)

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