nanoscopic
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3 years ago Keyboard support has now been added.
The following is supported so far:
- Alphanumeric keys
- Standard US keyboard punctuation and shift-key based symbols
- Backspace ( and delete, but it just does backspace )
- Tab / Space
- Enter
- Various other symbols via Alt+Key
Unsupported ( WDA doesn't seem to provide any way to do these ):
- Home / End / PageUp / PageDown
- Arrow keys
- Function Keys
- Esc ( so far as I can tell; what would it do?? )
Keys are sent in batches twice per second. Any faster than this and WDA calls can end up out of order scrambling intended text that was typed quickly.
WDA should be pipelined itself to avoid that... WDA doesn't properly handle multiple simultaneous calls. TODO
The text entry isn't as fast as I would like, and it is inconvenient that navigation keys aren't supported. Those should be able to be supported by writing a custom keyboard for iOS that can receive remote commands. TODO
Add keyboard support, to allow typing.
Basic means to just implement this for now using WDA. WDA is imperfect in that it cannot do all of the things that a plugged in keyboard can do, but it will suffice for initial purposes.