Issues, Workarounds & Localization

I hope someone can help with this, it's driving me mad. I have an Elantech touchpad, which may be the issue, but I have turned all its "advanced" features off and no joy. On looking at a planet whilst in station for PI, the zoom keys simply do nothing. If I undock, they zoom as intended. Dock again, and frozen again.

I am also unable to get a zoom reaction from the solar system map. This means I can't use probes effectively so this is a real issue. This problem seems persistent on the solar system map, I've tried touchpad combinations but they're no help. I'm going to try a normal mouse soon to see if that will help. I can spin etc the map as you might expect, but two button zooming does nothing either.

One possible clue - on one of the Eve settings options it suggests I have a left mouse button and a middle mouse button. So far as I know, I have just left and right and right clicks seem to work. I can't scroll up and down when in Eve using a gesture on the touchpad as I can in Windows 7 windows (I run Full Screen). So I do wonder if the Elantech drivers just aren't talking to the game right.

I suspect that there's some quirk with the touchpad drivers (it's an Asus laptop btw) but I've never seen this type of post answered here. Why would a touchpad prevent the keyboard shortcuts from working? Why does going into space enable them (or some of them)? Very, very annoying. I have already cleared my cache.

Any help greatly appreciated.

At the risk of appearing to be talking to myself, I have finally managed to figure this out. I saw some references to an Elantech Touchpad driver that seemed later than mine, but thought this was for a different sort of pad. Both the Windows driver update tool and the Asus website thought I had the most current version of the driver.

However, as it turns out, if you search on the Asus support site for "touchpad" rather than letting it auto-search based on your model of laptop, you suddently get a list of 40+ different drivers to pick from, some of which were more recent than mine. As I had nowhere left to go at this point I grabbed the most recent version and tried installing it.

Bingo. Everything zooms as it should, using the multi-touch gestures on the touchpad. The driver I had was clearly seriously behind the times, and yet it took a manual driver install to cure it. The moral of this story being don't assume that the manufacturer update sites are current - dig deeper.