iPhone, Bluetooth, control key

[Ben Cottrell]

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Hi,

I just bought my first iPhone a week ago. :-) I got the Thinkgeek
physical keyboard for it, with the intention of turning it into a
lean, mean, ssh-from-anywhere machine. Of course, I ran into the
control key issue everyone's been talking about.

I would be very happy with the proposed solution of mapping option/alt
to control. I just wanted to add my voice to the set of people asking
for the feature, as it's pretty hard to use a unix machine without a
control key!

~Ben
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[Dean]

The Apple iOS API does not make meta key statuses from physical
keyboards available to apps. The Option key workaround is only
workable on Apple BT and dock keyboards. As soon as the API changes
I'll make sure this gets fixed in iSSH.

Dean

[Ben Cottrell]

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Hi Dean,

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:04:47 -0800 (PST), Dean wrote:
> The Apple iOS API does not make meta key statuses from physical
> keyboards available to apps. The Option key workaround is only
> workable on Apple BT and dock keyboards.

Thanks very much for the reply! I'm confused, though -- I didn't
think there was any difference between an Apple-branded bluetooth
keyboard, and the Thinkgeek bluetooth keyboard. I'll take your
word for it that there is such a difference, though -- I have
a full-size Apple-branded one as well, and even using it, I still
can't see the "corner of a keyboard with the letters 'C' and 'A'"
icon on my iPhone. Is this still an iPad-only feature?

I think that's what I was trying to ask about -- sorry if I wasn't
clear! If there's some Apple-versus-third-party hardware conflict
going on, that's certainly not iSSH's responsibility to do anything
about. But it would be great to have iPhone/iPad parity; heck,
even if I have to find room in my shoulderbag for an Apple-branded
bluetooth keyboard, that's still better than having to carry
around a Macbook!

And yes, I know it stinks that Apple doesn't provide actual
key-up/key-down events. :-(

Thanks,

~Ben
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