Yes... that's exactly what I was thinking/hoping for.

Text selection is by far the most important, but being able to synthesize all touch events on a mouse button click would also be very helpful, so that a mouse can be used to navigate throughout the app.

Also being able to perform scrolling (in the text pane as well as the file list tableview) would also be incredibly useful, too.

Thanks so much for looking into this... let me know if you have any other questions, thanks!

Alexander,

Just wanted to bring up this thread again.

I am in the process of needing to do a lot more work on the iPad Pro -- textastic has been pretty good at helping me do that.  But I'm finding the lack of a mouse a bit cumbersome.

I also use Jump Desktop, and they have support for both the Swiftpoint GT as well as the Citrix X1 (which is what I've been using).  The Citrix X1 works flawlessly with Jump Desktop ... it'd be great to see support for it within Textastic.

Note, specifically for the Citrix X1 -- it's actually a BLE device (not Bluetooth Classic)... so pairing and operation is a lot easier.  Your app simply needs to incorporate CoreBluetooth as a "Central" role and connect to the X1 via BLE, and basically respond to positional events as it gets sent by the X1 (e.g. move up, move down, move left, move right, left button click, right button click).

Here's info on Jump Desktop's support of both mice: https://support.jumpdesktop.com/hc/en-us/articles/216426283-iOS-Does-Jump-Desktop-work-with-a-physical-mouse-on-iOS-

I haven't found any documentation on the X1's BLE protocol specifically... but if you use an app like LightBlue Explorer, it'd be easy enough to reverse engineer.

Let me know if you have any questions — I'd even be happy to help you with some of this if you want (I'm an iOS developer myself, with an emphasis on projects that involve device integration via things like BLE).