Hi Ben,
Didn't Brett report some success with using the HippoRemote app? I
know that's an iPhone app, but you could use it on the iPad. This is
from memory, and was posted in the years before this list was archived
at the Mail Archive site, so you'll have to search for the reference
the hard way, or maybe Brett can comment in response to your question.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Mar 17, 6:36 pm, Ben Mustill-Rose b...@benmr.com wrote:
Hey all,
I was wondering if anyone has ever played with any of the apps that
let you use an iPad as a trackpad for your computer? The idea here
isn't to be able to control your computer remotely in the way that
apps like vnc or log me in would do, more to give you a different
input method than using the keyboard all of the time.
I've played about with the mouse on my computer and I've got better at
using it, but totally blind mouse users face some issues - mainly that
it's sometimes hard to tell where the cursor is - E.G. top left of the
screen and that it takes practice to move the mouse when you've run
out of space on your mousemat. An iPad app should solve both of these
issues; you'll be able to learn where things are on the screen because
you're using a screen to control the cursor and moving your hand is as
simple as lifting your finger and moving it to the left of the screen
for example.
I've tested some free cheap apps - remote mouse, touch mouse and
mobile mouse but these all have issues:
A noticeable amount of the screen contains buttons. The ideal app
should dedicate the entire screen to the touchpad functionality so
that you don't inadvertently open a new window when vo is turned off;
obviously this is a blind requirement so it's understandable that not
every app does this.
Strangely, most apps use buttons to control left click, right click
etc. This isn't ideal as vo needs to be off to use the surface, but
idealy it needs to be on in order to press the buttons. In addition,
some apps don't even have a surface for direct mouse control and have
chosen to use buttons that incrament the cursor in a given direction
every time the button is pressed.
Has anyone found an app that doesn't have the above issues? If not, is
anyone else as interested in this as I am that they would like to test
the different available apps? The idea here would be that the work of
finding the best app could be split up between different people so
that we could find a solution as quickly as possible.
Cheers,
Ben.
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