The TouchTerm Forum is now available! We'll be using these forums to discuss the future of TT and TT Pro. We invite you to participate!

This page is a more "official" announcement of features that are in-development and planned for upcoming and future update releases of both TT and TT Pro.

Use the "Discuss" links to access the relevant area of the TouchTerm Forums, to contribute your thoughts or implementation ideas, or to "vote" for features you'd most like to see. If there's no discussion link available, please feel free to create a new thread on forum!

The features in the first two sections ("Next Release" and "Coming Soon") will almost certainly be in one of the next few updates. The last section, "Future Plans", is more speculative; if you'd like to see these added, or if you other ideas of new features you'd like to see added to TT or TT Pro, we strongly encourage you to use the forums to voice your opinion! We take user feedback very seriously: it's the main factor that drives what goes into our update releases.

Next Release: TouchTerm 2.3 / TT Pro 1.1			Discuss!
Application Lock TouchTerm can now be set up to require a master password on startup.
Connection Diagnostics Verbose logging (and e-mail of full log) available to help diagnose failed connections.
New Fonts Added two new fonts, as well as improved drawing speed when using international characters.
Private Key Export Ability to export private authentication keys.
Configuration Import/Export Import / Export of Configuration Profiles, Saved Connections, and custom Keypads. Using this you can now easily share advanced TT Pro configuration, backup your TT Pro configuration settings, and manually edit advanced settings.

Coming Soon			Discuss!
Audible BEL Audio, visual, and/or vibration feedback for the BEL (\007) character.
Password Manager Similar to "Keychain" on the Mac, this would provide a secure way to manage passwords for connections and other remote accounts. We're still open to ideas on how this should work, and also we'd like to know whether there's much call for this (especially since this can more or less be accomplished within the current TT Pro interface, using for example custom Keypads).
XTerm Emulation Xterm emulation support will provide greater compatibility with screen-based programs. This will also include the ability to change the screen size (from the standars 80x24 columns), and full xterm-color support.
Sub-pixel Fonts We're currently working on adding sub-pixel font support. This would be limited to white-on-black text only, and would only really work for 7-bit ASCII characters; but this would be sufficient for a large number of users, so we think it's still worthwhile.

Future Plans			Discuss!
Telnet / Raw TCP support We get occasional requests for this; we'd like to try to understand the actual demand for telnet usage before spending time on this feature. Please vote if you're interested in seeing this added!
Accelerometer Gestures Any interest in adding Accelerometer-based gestures? We could use shakes, tilts, and possibly even "swirls", "tosses" -- who knows? :) Any requests or suggestions for useful accelerometer gestures are much appreciated; it's hard to tell if this would be genuinely useful, or more just a fun gimmick, but not so useful.
Authentication Forwarding Authentication forwarding (ssh-agent) support. This is still slated as a "Future Plan" since there are a lot of implementation details yet to figure out.
Database Encryption The current Application Lock is effective protection against accessing passwords in TT under normal circumstances; but if your phone is lost or stolen, it would be possible to "jailbreak" and access the files and passwords. To prevent against this, we could encrypt the TT Pro configuration database, or at least password-related information. This is a fair bit of work, so we'd like to gauge interest before spending a lot of time on it.
Help / Learning / Integrated Tutorials TT Pro is a complex app: we currently have an extensive User Guide, as well as the "tour" videos and Integrated Help to assist with the learning process. But we're also exploring other resources and options for making the learning process quicker and more efficient.
Integrated Web View For web-based administration, we've had a few requests to include an integrated web view: so you could load a particular URL/site, and check any changes, without having to leave the TouchTerm application. It's a relatively big project, so we'd like to gauge interest more before adding it: please vote if you're interested in seeing this!
Local Text File Editing This would provide the ability to select a text file and bring it up in a "local" text editor on the iphone (e.g., a text field similar to how Mail works). After changes are made, the changes would be sent back to the server. There are still lots of details here that would need to be figured out; see the forum discussion for more info.
More Touch Gestures There are lots of possibilities here: circles, X's, even more complicated letter-like shapes; two-finger rotations, double-slides, pinches; and 3+ fingers also. With these possibilities and combinations, 100s of mappable gestures are possible: mostly it's a question of whether it's useful to have so many more options.
SCP/SFTP support This would allow you to use the TT Pro filesystem as a file storage and transfer device, easily transferring files to and from your servers.
Search Terminal Window This would provide an interface for searching for words in the Terminal output. It's not technically too hard to implement, mostly we'd like to see if there's much interest in it!