I think my wife's gateway has a control panel that lets you switch this behavior. Not sure if the dells come with a similar thing.

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-----Original Message----- From: mark [mailto:mark@junklight.com]

I've recently aquired a Dell Laptop and it occurred to me that the touch pad would make a nice input device. However on further investigation using "mousestate" I see that it only outputs deltas (like a real mouse) rather than an absolute position.