#TYPE2PHONE SEND KEYCODE WITH MODIFIER EXAMPE CODE#
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#TYPE2PHONE SEND KEYCODE WITH MODIFIER EXAMPE MAC#

So what you see on your Mac is not what appears on your iPhone it’s more like the output of a keylogger program. It’s really distracting.Īs you can see from the photograph, each editing command appears in its own chiclet. Every keystroke shows up in a little white chiclet which scrolls from right to left as you type. What isn’t wonderful, at least not initially, is what goes on in the Type2Phone window as you type. ⌘A selects all the text in the field, ⌘X cuts, ⌘C copies, and ⌘V pastes. Cursor control keys work, as do the Shift, Option, and Command modifier keys. What you type on your Mac magically appears in the iPhone’s text field. Tap in a text field on you phone to get the cursor blinking.Choose your phone from the popup menu of paired devices.Launch Type2Phone, which brings up a long, horizontal window.

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1 That, at least, has been my experience so far, and because that’s how pairing works with Bluetooth mice, keyboards, and earpieces, I expect it to work that way with the computer, too. After the phone and computer know each other, they reconnect immediately. Luckily, this awful pairing experience seems to be required only once per computer. I’m sorry I can’t give you screenshots or a better description of the process, but I felt the need to work quickly so I wouldn’t lose the connection. With the iMac, I had to type in a set of numbers on both devices with the MB Air, I just had to tap an onscreen button. The actual pairing procedure-which only starts after you go through all those steps to get the phone to see the Mac-was different on the two machines. The phone didn’t see the MB Air immediately either, but it did on the first try with the “Troubleshooting” technique. I have no idea why it didn’t work at first or why it finally did. It still didn’t work the next couple of times I tried it, but then it did. Since my iPhone uses my iMac’s WiFi sharing at work, that seemed like reasonable advice. Eventually, I found this message on Houdah’s support forum, which suggested turning off WiFi on the devices before trying to pair them via Bluetooth. The first few times, I just got an error message on the phone saying a connection was impossible. On the iMac, I had to do this at least five times before it worked.

Tap the name of the Mac to start the pairing procedure.

On your iPhone / iPad, go to Settings > General > Bluetooth.

Set Bluetooth on the Mac to be discoverable.

If the Mac is listed with a blue arrow, tap that arrow and select “Forget this device”.

With both my iMac and my MacBook Air, I had to resort to Houdah’s “Troubleshooting” tips to even get the phone to see that the Mac was available: I do, and I’ve always felt ridiculous typing away on the phone’s small keyboard when real one is right in front of me.īefore you can use Type2Phone, you have to pair your Mac with your iPhone, which I found difficult at best. If you don’t see the value of having a full-sized keyboard for your iPhone, you must not get texts while you’re at your computer. This is functionality that Apple should have built-in (we stay within the Apple ecosystem because of its excellent product integration-this is an area where the integration fails), but until it does Type2Phone will fill the gap. The purpose of Type2Phone is to allow you to use your Mac as a Bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone or iPad.

Well, now I have it installed on both of my computers, and even though it was hard to get working and has a weird display, it seems like a useful tool to have. So I'm thinking now that the modifier keys are perhaps dealt with differently.I’d seen mentions of Type2Phone by Clark Goble and Stephen Hackett, but I didn’t get around to looking at it until Justin Blanton linked to it earlier this week. However, my results are consistent, it seems as though the control key isn't being sent. This is obviously harder to debug as I can't just open notepad and watch for capitalization. This evening I tried with a left control (0圎0).

#TYPE2PHONE SEND KEYCODE WITH MODIFIER EXAMPE CODE#

I thought perhaps my code wasn't working the send buffer correctly.but if I stuff two letters in at once, I get two letters out. But if I stuff my send buffer with a left shift (0圎1) and then a 'J', I still get a lowercase J.

I'm using the HID usage table to come up with my codes. So, I can send a specific keycode to the host just great. I'm still at the breadboarding stage, and one thing that keeps rearing its head is that something isn't working quite right with modifier keys. The USB stack is mainly left alone, I've just added different things that trigger the sending of data.

It enumerates ok, and transmits the keycodes that I want it to.for the most part. After a bunch of tweaking and playing around, I have it working. Brad Minch on an 18f4550 (specifically lab 2). I'm using the excellent code written by Mr. This is my first post here, I hope it's going in the right spot.

Type2phone send keycode with modifier exampe