Questions about VNC

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

Windows VNC server hooks message queues for all windows and uses these to
guess what has changed on-screen.  It then captures the changed regions and
encodes & transmits them.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK - Tel : 343000

----- Original Message -----
From: <tsw "at" shuwei.pl.my>
To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: Questions about VNC


> How is Windows VNC implemented? Is it through screen
> capturing? If it is, are the images compressed before being sent,
> and is the whole screen transmitted or only the area that has
> changed?
>
> Thanks
>
> Shu Wei
>
>
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