virtual-touchpad 0.19.1

Description:

virtualtouchpad 0.19.1

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

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.



Building
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 bootstrap.py
# Follow instructions to activate virtualenv
python setup.py install

Building a native binary
If you intend to run the build target build_exe, you must activate the
virtualenv.
This is to ensure that no optional dependencies for any libraries, PIL in
particular, are included from the host system. PIL contains import statements
for Tk and Qt, which will increase the size of the resulting binary, and
thus the download and startup times, considerably.




Release Notes

v0.19.1 - Include QR view

Make sure to actually include QR view in built package.



v0.19 - Access control

Added possibility to restrict access to anyone in front of the screen.
Updated visual styling of documents.
Corrected display of stack trace for internal server errors.



v0.18 - QR code

Added QR code view to provide the mobile device URL. Just click Connect
mobile device… in the system tray menu.
Updated aiohttp to version 1.2.



v0.17.1 - Allow access to root

Allow accessing http://server/ instead of http://server/index.xhtml.



v0.17

Dropped support for Python before 3.5.
Added menu to system tray icon to allow stopping Virtual Touchpad.
UPdated icon.
Updated mouse and keyboard control library with many fixes.
Improved handling of disconnection.
Improved bootstrapping on OSX.
Corrected host name for ZeonConf.



v0.16.2 - Include Release Notes

Actually include release notes when publishing on PyPi.



v0.16.1 - Corrected Resources

Actually include help files in PyPi package.
Corrected handling of getting the root.



v0.16 - Multi platform prebuilt packages

Added support for building native packages for all platforms.
Disallowed serving files outside of the resource directory.
Correctly serve the keyboard layout on Python 3.
Corrected parsing of git output when making release.



v0.15.3 - Fixes for OSX

Enabled dragging on OSX.
Increased scrolling speed on OSX.



v0.15.2 - Fixes for Windows

Reenabled clicking and scrolling for Windows.



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.