T91MT Palm Rejection Found!
I previously reported (in error) that there was absolutely no palm rejection with the T91MT. That was not entirely true. Hidden in Touch Gate’s tools menu is what ASUS is calling “IntelliWrite” (the window name, as I noticed in the taskbar, is “PalmRejection”, which immediately got me excited).
As seen in the screenshot, it claims to only work with Journal and “StikyNot” (which I assume is a typo of “Sticky Notes”). I tested the feature on and off, and it does work in Journal (it works incredibly well). Unfortunately, it’s not global. Applications like OneNote work the same whether on or off.
With the feature on (in Journal), it makes it nearly impossible to mark on the screen with your finger or palm or almost anything else unless the tip size of the object you are using has a tip size similar to the stylus (my fingernail works, sometimes). The stylus works always. My theory is that, while this screen does not have pressure sensativity, it can somehow detect the size of the touch, and while enabled, IntelliWrite only allows touches that are the size of the pen to register. But that’s just a wild guess.
I have no idea why this feature is limited to two programs. So what kind of screen is this? A very very smart resistive screen? Perhaps others could comment on this.
So Palm Rejection has been found, but it only works on two very basic applications (so far).
Good to know ASUS wasn’t lying! You should have been more thorough in your usage before reporting ASUS was missing features it promised.
Just read the manual!
Great news! Now to find out if there is likely ever to be a way to extend this goodness to other programs, in particular, to OneNote. Please keep us posted! And thanks!
I found
I found a way to use palm rejection with OneNote, however it disables Windows Journal (but who minds ?
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Kill Intelliwriting.exe in the process explorer, rename “C:\Program Files\Windows Journal” to “C:\Program Files\Windows Journal2″ (if it doesn’t work with file explorer use cmd.exe and run it as administrator then go to Program Files Folder with cd, and type move “Windows Journal” “Windows Journal2″)
When done, create a folder named “Windows Journal” in “C:\Program Files” copy your ONENOTE.EXE file to this new folder. Rename the pasted file (ONENOTE.EXE) to “Journal.exe”. Create a link to this file and change the “start in” property of the link so that it points to the original folder of OneNote.exe (should be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ for OneNote2007). Use only this link to start OneNote from now on, else it won’t activate palm rejection.
Restart intelliwriting.exe, reconfigure intelliwriting so that palm rejection is enable (Tools -> Intelliwriting) tick the box so that it ask everytime about palm rejection.
Launch OneNote with your new shortcut and… ENJOY
So what I think is that intelliwriting is using the complete path to the file launched to activate or not. I’ll try to disassemble the file to find how to go through this limitation.
Bye.
PS: I’m french so excuse my mistakes.
Thanks so much, Jerome! You’ve convinced me to order one of these machines tomorrow!
Thanks Jérôme, I’ll give that a try! I wonder why ASUS chose to not make this feature global?
@ninetynine
Only two applications natively work with palm rejection, and neither are very popular or sophisticated programs (Journal and Sticky Notes).
Under Pen Settings in Journal, you can turn on pressure sensitivity.
Can you tell me where is exactly the “IntelliWrite” menu? I can’t find it…
@edipo2
IntelliWrite is under Eee Tools on Eee Dock.
Hi,
I started an online petition asking Asus to provide a global palm rejection (or pen only) mode for the T91 and T91MT. While I really like my new T91MT (which I received on Monday), that would make it much more useful. The link to the petition is:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/AsusT91/petition.html
Now I am not really a professional in getting the word out, maybe kubel, you could help out there a bit, you were pretty successful in making your site a small harbor for people that are interested in T91 or that actually have it (and thanks for that – i got most info about the device from here and actually based my decision to buy one on this page).
regards,
schuggiz