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You could use a flight simulator with a mouse but God help you if you try to pair your mouse with a plane!
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Using the Apple Bluetooth Mouse on the iPad?
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registers
Simulation software
You could use a flight simulator with a mouse but God help you if you try to pair your mouse with a plane!
If it's a touch device? why is it it accepts events from the external keyboard?
Is the keyboard putting events into the "registers" of the device?
The device has an event loop and it responds to events. Providing you can generate the events it's not going to care. It would be very easy for the device to take events from a bluetooth mouse especially one like a Magic Mouse.
Is the keyboard putting events into the "registers" of the device?
The device has an event loop and it responds to events. Providing you can generate the events it's not going to care. It would be very easy for the device to take events from a bluetooth mouse especially one like a Magic Mouse.
registers
Simulation software
You could use a flight simulator with a mouse but God help you if you try to pair your mouse with a plane!
Well the keyboard driver will detect what key has been pressed and load the appropriate ASCII value into a register. To the end user clicking a mouse button and touching a screen has the same effect but look at the software behind it and they are two completely different tasks. Hence me saying the iPhone OS will not have mouse drivers installed. I'm pretty sure apple could add them very easily but they clearly have not for whatever reason.
I'm not saying it is possible because it isn't. I'm just saying it should be possible as it's not technically challenging to provide this functionality. Apple have chosen to leave it out, imho because it will cannibalize laptop sales. iPads are to encourage people to eventually buy a laptop so there must be a big divide in functionality b/w an iPad and a laptop.
I dont see why you would want it. For me it would be far more hassle to move my right hand form the keyboard to the mouse, move the cursor to where i want it and then click away. Wouldn't it be easier to just move your hand from the keyboard and tap whatever you want on screen?
From using the iPhone/iPad simulator on my mac i can tell you a mouse on a touch UI is not the nicest of experiences.
From using the iPhone/iPad simulator on my mac i can tell you a mouse on a touch UI is not the nicest of experiences.
Keep in mind that mouse is at placed at the same distance from you as keyboard. People have been working like this for years and it works just fine. iPad on the other hand is farther from you and stretching your arm to touch it is a real pain (literally). You will not be able to do it for more than a few minutes.
What? I'm not sure how you picture someone using the iPad, but when I have it in the dock on my kitchen bar, my hands are about 3 inches in front of it. It's not even something I'd consider calling a reach to type and touch on the screen. I could spend hours doing it comfortably.
EDIT: Also, if i'm holding the iPad, my hands are already on the device, regardless of my position, so there is no stretching of my arms to reach it. Perfectly comfortable, and i've already spent countless hours using it with no pain.
If you bought an iPad as a replacement for a desktop then you shouldn't have bought an iPad.
not being a prick, but whats the logic behind releasing a keyboard/Dock? Isn't the idea to turn the ipad into a desktop?
mouse support would be cool in that case.
Just Saying.
mouse support would be cool in that case.
Just Saying.
Nobody expects an iPad to function as a desktop. Open your eyes man and stop being so closed to other peoples ideas. "Registers?"
The keyboard dock combo allows touch typists to type longer documents faster than they could using the on-screen keyboard. It's not an attempt to make the iPad a desktop.
I disagree. There are probably a dozen apps in the app store for remote control of a desktop machine. Go ahead and try it some time without a mouse and you will see that it would be nice to have a mouse for this situation even if the iPad os never put up a mouse crosshair or cursor, the remote control apps all put up cursors. You can try this with a number of free apps like mocha vnc lite to see for yourself what I mean.
When the iPad is docked (I dont have one) I can really see the use in having a mouse and keyboard. If there is already a keyboard, typing on that, then having to gingerly use your finger to place the curser seems very counter-intuitive. I hope the jailbreak can bring something like this.
Don't worry. Be patient. Android perks right up with a mouse pointer when you pair it with a bluetooth mouse. With a little competition Apple is being very responsive. Expect mouse support in 4.something. You can bet they are working desperately on it.