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Keyboard Input

Jump Desktop Support
posted this on October 02, 2010 00:31

Keyboard input and auxiliary keypads

Jump Desktop has several auxiliary Keypads to make it easy to do everything on your mobile device that you do with a physical keyboard.

Keypads for the iPad

Keypads for the iPhone / iPod Touch

Keypads for the iPad

You can access the main Keyboard and auxiliary Keypads by three-finger tapping or tapping the keyboard icon in the upper left or right corner.

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Keypads for the iPhone / iPod Touch

Accessing and switching between the auxiliary Keypads on iPhone/iPod Touch is a little different from iPad. Tap the Keyboard icon in the upper right corner, or three-finger tap to bring up the QWERTY Keyboard.

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From there, tap the Keypad icon to switch to the auxiliary Keypads, or three-finger double tap, then use your finger to swipe between auxiliary Keypads:

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Keypad 1:

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Keypad 2:

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Keypad 3:

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Keypad 4:

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Andronov Mickael
I can't enter a russian (cyrillic) symbols. I use IPad 2, the computer work with Win 7 home! What do i wrong?
August 25, 2011 05:41.
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Jump Desktop Support
Phase Five Systems

@Andronov, we're going to be adding support for this in the next release (after 4.0.5).

September 23, 2011 08:20.
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Pop Adiwit

I can't enter Thai text. I use both iPad 2 and iPhone 4 to connect to Windows 7 computer. Please the add support for me :(

November 03, 2011 19:46.
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Phase Five Systems

@Pop, can you email support@jumpdesktop.com ? We have a beta on the way that enables Thai input for VNC machines. More technical: RDP for Thai machines works, but as of 4.0.5 VNC connections don't handle all unicode characters properly.

November 05, 2011 06:28.
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Lee Warner
Maybe I'm missing it, but is there a way to change keyboard controls to Mac friendly? You know, command, option, shift, etc... Instead of control, alt, windows, etc...
November 08, 2011 10:33.
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Jump Desktop Support
Phase Five Systems

@Lee - The controls map in the following way on the Mac:

  • Shift -> Shift
  • Ctrl -> Control
  • Alt -> Option
  • Win -> Command

November 08, 2011 10:41.
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Lee Warner
Yeah, I know the mappings, but your competitors offer the ability to choose the type of keyboard for VNC connections. Seems like something you'd want to implement. I bought your app and my boss is upset, at least mildly, that there isn't that option. People who aren't bi-os-lingual will have problems remembering the mappings.
November 08, 2011 10:50.
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Jump Desktop Support
Phase Five Systems

@Lee if you mean selecting the keyboard layout for Mac connections, then please hang on. We already have this implemented in our development builds and it'll be included in our next update. 

Edit: I see you meant that we include the actual labels on the buttons. We'll fix this in the next update so that it correctly matches the labels on a Mac.

November 08, 2011 10:53.
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Lee Warner
Thanks. Great news.
November 08, 2011 11:02.
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Ltw
Found another "quirk" when controlling a Mac. You have to use the special shift key for caps. It would be nice to be able to use the standard iPhone/iPad shift key. This becomes really apparent when using something like ! When you type ! On the iPad keyboard it shows up as 1 on the Mac. I have to use "shift-1" to get a !
November 22, 2011 09:06.
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Phase Five Systems

@Ltw - are you using a british keyboard layout on your Mac? If so, contact support@jumpdesktop.com - we're beta testing a version of Jump that has this fix.

November 22, 2011 14:52.
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Ltw
No. I'm using an American/English keyboard.
November 22, 2011 14:58.
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Jump Desktop Support
Phase Five Systems

@Ltw I'm have trouble reproducing this problem on OS X Lion. Can you please contact support@jumpdesktop.com? 

November 22, 2011 15:07.
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Ltw
I'm not using lion. I'm using 10.6.7. I use a lot of video editing software. Lion isn't an option or me right now. I'll email support with some screen shots.
November 22, 2011 15:10.
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