VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:27:43PM -0500, Greg Breland wrote:
> Popup windows are a child of the parent process, which would be the program
> running VNC.  You would only send windows owned by process XXXXX sent just
> like you said.  The hard part would be the fact that you can not resize.
> This is obviously a "HARD" problem, because I don't know any rfb protocol
> which supports this.  Even Citrix can not do this.  You would really need a
> way for the client to specify the resolution that the server would send.
> You could probably do it with a go-between program that requested from the
> client the resolution and then started a VNC server which would auto connect
> to the client.  I believe this is already built into VNC, so all someone
> would have to do would write the code to initialize the server correctly.

Well, OK... but no one yet has given a valid argument as to why this is
a good idea _architecturally_.

If you _want_ X, _use_ X.

Cheers,
-- jra
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