I've tested LogMeIn Ignition and AlwaysOnPC (see THIS on the latter) on my iPad 3 and both worked just great! This is a HUGE advantage, should you depend on remote desktop apps! Automatic reconnecting the mice also works just great - it's as seamless as, say, reconnecting your BT keyboard. fully compatible with the stock BT stack – no need to use the proprietary one any more, can use any (compatible) BT keyboards, headphones etc. (Needless to say, you don't need to follow what you're asked to do – you couldn't, mice having no keys, anyway.) Not so with incompatible BT mice (for example, Apple's very first BT mouse, the Apple Wireless Mouse ( Wiki)), where the dialog will stay and only later will you be notified of the failure of the pairing process. With most mice, you'll hardly have any time to read the content of this dialog – it'll be quickly hidden and replaced by another dialog stating pairing was successful. In the following screenshot, I've shown what you'll be (quickly) shown after you tap a BT device's name (I've annotated the latter with a red rectangle): You can start set your BT mice discoverable as soon as your iDevice discovers them, just tap their name as you'd do with any regular BT device. I've installed the tweak on three iDevices (iPad 2, 3 and an iPt 4, all running iOS 5.1.1) without reaching the limit, if any. Note that I don't know whether the number of activations you can do is limited. The app connects to the developer's server to check whether the tweak has been pirated if it isn't, it's activated. I must use dumbed-down thumbnails not to mess up page layout / cause too much traffic on the readers' part.)Īfter installation (and a respring), navigate to the standard Bluetooth (BT) dialog under Settings > General > Bluetooth and tap “ Activate Mouse & Trackpad” (annotated with a red rectangle below): (as with all the other images in the article, click the thumbnail to see a much better-quality version. Then, you'll be shown the following app info screen (a screenshot of it being presented to me, an old, legal customer of BTstack Keyboard): Just make sure you're logged in into Facebook / Google using Manage Account > Connect with Facebook / Sign in with Google in the main Cydia tab. If you are, you end up having to pay only half of the price. The tweak costs $4.98, unless you've an existing customer of one of the developer's other, commercial apps, “ BTstack Keyboard” (also quickly reviewed HERE). If you don't jailbreak, you can stop reading this article right now as you in no way can use external mice with your device. Needless to say: as with all great system-wide tweaks and enhancements, this – a utility that would work on more open and, in many respects, much more advanced operating systems like Symbian or Android just fine, without any kind of “hacking” – also requires jailbreaking. The developer of “BTstack Mouse” has just released a commercial tweak, “ BTC Mouse & Trackpad” ( Cydia homepage), which brings (almost) full mouse support with really few drawbacks. Needless to day, remote desktop controllers didn't work properly, either. Back then, not much: with the free, old “ BTstack Mouse” app, you could do little, had to work with a separate Bluetooth implementation meaning incompatibility issues and connection initiation problems and the like. You may remember THIS article, where I shown whether the then-current iOS mouse drivers (apps that made external Bluetooth mice work with iDevices) were any good. UPDATE (11/Oct/2012): THIS post (an answer to my review below) and THIS thread (calling this tweak essential and also explaining why) are also worth checking out. UPDATE (19/Oct/2012): see THIS for a quick report on the just-released version 1.1-2. The latter is far easier to operate it's just that it doesn't support mouse dragging for text selection. Unfortunately, this mode cannot be used regularly as the remote mouse cursor will be different from that of the local one, unlike in the default " Touch screen mode". It's only then that you'll be able to highlight text in the usual way, by just dragging the cursor. For example, with AlwaysOnPC, you must switch to " Mouse mode" from the default " Touch screen mode" by clicking the fifth icon. Genuine text selection only works with remote desktop controllers in their non-touch emulation mode. When released, the usual pop-up menu is displayed with the usual options (Copy etc.) These handles can, then, be dragged by the mouse in exactly the same way as you'd do with your finger. That is, if you long-click a word, it'll be highlighted and the two handles will appear at the beginning / end of the word.
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