Full Screen of Server in a Window of Client

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

> >It's not difficult at all - we did try it.  However, it does make the
> >Windows viewer _incredibly_ slow - StrecthBlt isn't well supported in
most
> >video cards, I don't think.
>
> At least on my TNT2 card it's very snappy to resize anything, even when
> using a 1600x1200x32bit desktop ... and when scaling upwards it will even
> smooth the lot for you (very obviously visible in programs like the Media
> Player 6.1 where I can resize a playing mpeg/avi/whatever on the fly).
> But yes, you probably require the hardware (and proper drivers for that
> hardware) for it. That hardware is becoming more and more of a standard
> though ... I think all the more or less recent videochips can do hardware
> scaling.

Good points.  Presumuably you have some kind of fast 3D card?  (The
stretchblit thing is really more a 3D card type of feature)?  I'll mention
this to Quentin & perhaps he'll make it a registry-enabled optional feature
or something, if he has time.

> BTW, I never said 'thanks for VNC' before, so here I go. :) Use it both
> at work and here at home to access my X desktops, and occasionally (but
> that's very slow, probably due to the machine) to my W95 laptop when I'm
> too lazy to lean backward to get to the keyboard. A few others at work
> also use it to access their X servers and a few NT servers. It's a great
> program, we love it. Surely beats the hell out of the slow X-Win32.

:)  Cool.  Glad you like it!

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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