Use the iPhone as a remote keyboard

[joec]

Hi

I would like to write a simple app, whereby i press a button labelled 'A' on the iPhone, and the connected computer (over wifi/bluetooth) acts as if the A key was pressed on its own keyboard...

Would something like this be possible, perhaps using the bonjour API? Would functionality like this require me to have some software already running on the client machine to detect and respond to key presses? Ideally without software running would be the win-win situation.

Eventually, i would like to write an App for interacting with apps like Photoshop.

Thanks for your help.

Joe

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by joec

Hi

I would like to write a simple app, whereby i press a button labelled 'A' on the iPhone, and the connected computer (over wifi/bluetooth) acts as if the A key was pressed on its own keyboard...

Would something like this be possible, perhaps using the bonjour API? Would functionality like this require me to have some software already running on the client machine to detect and respond to key presses? Ideally without software running would be the win-win situation.

Eventually, i would like to write an App for interacting with apps like Photoshop.

Thanks for your help.

Joe

It's almost certainly possible, but it would require putting some system level components deep into the desktop computer.

Apps like Apple's screen sharing,or "remote desktop" do this sort of thing.

You would have to do some serious digging to figure out how to do it. It would be advanced Mac OS programming.

[joec]

Originally Posted by Duncan C

It's almost certainly possible, but it would require putting some system level components deep into the desktop computer.

Apps like Apple's screen sharing,or "remote desktop" do this sort of thing.

You would have to do some serious digging to figure out how to do it. It would be advanced Mac OS programming.

Hi

Ok, that sounds overly complex, given that i would need to support the app on Windows too.

What about the possibility of me having a piece of software running on the machine (advertising a Bonjour service for example). Would keyboard integration be easier then?

Thanks
Joe.