rccharles wrote:
Microsoft's RD client app has supported a mouse with Remote Desktop connections for years,
Do you have a link for this? When I looked, I didn't see a reference for mouse support on an ios device.
R
No, I don't have a link, but I've been using MS's RD Client on my own iPads (currently an Air 2 and a Pro) for the past several years for VPN Remote Desktop sessions with my windows 7 desktop at work. RD client has always supported a mouse on the Remote Desktop. Several other Remote Desktop cloents I tried 2-3 years ago also support that feature. You can't really build a successful Windows remote desktop app if you don't build in mouse support on the Remote Desktop.
In RD Client, you drive the remote desktop mouse by touch on the iPad screen, just as you drive the mouse in all iOS Remote Desktop apps. iOS itself remains a purely touch interface, used to drive the mouse cursor (screen taps replacing mouse clicks) with your finger. Jump desktop works the same way. None of these apps in iOS work with a physical mouse - they support a mouse interface on the remote but the app in iOS is still purely a touch interface app.
Jump desktop does NOT support a physical mouse as there is no way to connect a local mouse to the remote machine. It supports a BT keyboard, but it still requires you to drive the remote mouse by touch. Any mouse in your hand with the iOS device has no way at all of connecting to the remote machine And iOS has no way of reading mouse input at all, so no way of forwarding it to the remote machine.
Posters here are confusing a feature of touch support for remote mouse cursors with using a physical mouse with remote connections. IOS does not support physical mouse input, for any app.