virtual-touchpad 0.15.1

Turns your mobile or tablet into a touchpad and keyboard for your computer.

Virtual Touchpad

This application allows you to use a mobile phone or tablet as a touchpad and keyboard for your computer.

No software needs to be installed on the device.

Quick Start

On Windows, you can use the pre-packaged binary virtualtouchpad.exe. When you run it, an icon will appear in the notification area. Hovering over this icon reveals the URL to use on your phone or tablet.

If no pre-built executable exists for your platform, launch it from a terminal:

python -m virtualtouchpad

This will start an HTTP server. It will print the line

Starting server http://<computer name>:<port>/…

Connect to the URL displayed.

Installation

Install this application by running the following command:

pip install virtual-touchpad

If you want to have access to pre-release versions, you can clone the git repository available from the linked home page below. Install by running this command:

cd $VIRTUAL_TOUCHPAD_REPO python setup.py install

Installation issues

When installing, the dependencies for this application are also downloaded. Some of the dependencies are native libraries and must be compiled before they can be used.

There is no standard way of providing any dependencies for the native libraries through this website, so they must thus be present on your computer before you run the installation, as do Python development headers files.

The easies way to install the headers is via the packager manager provided by your operating system. The names of the packages required depend on your specific operating system.

Release Notes

v0.15.1 - Fixes for iOS

• Do not require the browser to support HTML5 Fullscreen, since this is not supported on iOS.

• Allow the application to run unpackaged again.

v0.15 - Python 3 Support

• Added support for Python 3.

v0.14 - System tray icon on Mac OSX

• Added support for system tray icon on Mac OSX by replacing internal system tray icon handling with pystray.

v0.13 - Mac OSX Support

• Added support for Mac OSX by replacing internal keyboard and mouse handling with pynput and, for now, making the systray icon optional.

v0.12.4 - Corrected packaging

• Ensure that only dependencies for the current platform are required.

• Allow loading the systray icon for Windows when running from a wheel.

v0.12.3 - Corrected clicks

• Corrected touch pad clicks.

v0.12.2 - Corrected imports

• Corrected imports.

v0.12.1 - No more PIL

• Replaced dependency on PIL with Pillow. This should make it possible to install from PyPi.

v0.12 - Shiny Keyboard

• Support for keyboards has been added. For now only two layouts are included.

• The user interface has been polished.

• Virtual Touchpad now broadcasts its presence on the network using mDNS.

v0.11 - Translations

• Virtual Touchpad can now be translated into other languages.

• Added Swedish translation.

v0.10 - Systray on Windows

• Added systray icon for Windows.

v0.9.2 - Fixed building on Windows

• Virtual Touchpad now supports zip-safe again.

• The build script does not fail if ImageMagick convert is not the first convert on the path.

v0.9.1 - Fixed systray window on Linux

• The systray window is no longer mapped on Linux.

v0.9 - Systray on Linux

• Added systray icon for Linux.

v0.8 - Configure sensitivity

• The sensitivity and acceleration of the trackpad is now configurable.

• Clicking is now easier and allows the finger to move slightly across the screen.

v0.7 - Run from single file

• Virtual Touchpad can now be run from a zipped egg.

• Py2exe is now supported to pack Virtual Touchpad into a single exe file on Windows.

v0.6 - Windows support

• It is now possible to run Virtual Touchpad on Windows.

v0.5 - Installation possible

• Corrected snapping of bottom tool bar.

• Corrected bugs in setup script that prevented Virtual Touchpad from being installed.

v0.4 - Basic help

• Made scrolling a lot smoother.

• Added basic FAQ.

v0.3 - Extended user interface

• Added support for drag-and-drop.

• Added a bottom toolbar with a fullscreen button.

• Increased size of message box text.

v0.2 - Initial release

• Basic touchpad support, with hard-coded sensitivity and acceleration.

• Basic offline support using AppCache.