VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control

[Steve Bostedor]

Alrighty, then.  With the win.tbl, it started going back uphill.  Setting
aside any of the little blunders in the sample source code, it works great.
Now time to do something with this neat little tool.  ;)
Steve Bostedor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Greg Breland
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:28 PM
> To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
> Subject: RE: VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control
>
>
> 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.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thong Nguyen [mailto:tummy "at" technologist.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 11:49 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject: RE: VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control
>
>
> Thanks, it's as important to get feedback on how many people have got it
> working as it is to know how many people haven't.
>
> BTW, I've uploaded a new build.
>
>
> And as for your ActiveX serer idea - I've definitely thought hard about
> that.  But I'm not at all familiar with how the heck to do it at
> the moment.
> But the idea is something I like.  Turn any application into a
> VNC server -
> that would just KICK ASS.
> There are problems tho you see.  What happens to a dialog box?  What about
> new windows the application generates?  etc etc.  RFB doesn't yet have the
> ability to notify clients to either open up a new session window,
> or expand
> the frame buffer size.  One solution to this ofcourse would be to
> just have
> the frame buffer the size of the screen, but have all windows except those
> owned by process XXXXX sent.
>
> ..Tummy..
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> > [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Greg Breland
> > Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 4:18 a.m.
> > To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
> > Subject: RE: VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control
> >
> >
> > My mistake.  My problem was that I did not have the mscomctl.ocx
> > registered
> > correctly.  Once I re-registered it, the viewer example worked fine.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Breland [mailto:gbreland "at" healthtech.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:17 AM
> > To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
> > Subject: RE: VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control
> >
> >
> > I am glad someone has done this.  I have wanted to do it for a
> > year now, but
> > have not had the time.  One problem I have with the control is a point
> > others have made also.
> >
> > You used a Beta OS to write the control.  Now I am a VB
> programmer I have
> > VB6.0 on a WinNT4sp5 machine.  I do not have all the controls
> > needed to run
> > this puppy.  Could you please port this down to a current
> operating system
> > such as NT4 or Win98?  There is no way for us to get some of
> > these controls
> > as they are probably for Win2000.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thong Nguyen [mailto:tummy "at" technologist.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:30 AM
> > To: Carl Cook; Vnc-List; Nathan Keir
> > Subject: VNCX - The VNC ActiveX control
> >
> >
> > I've had some time to put the project into a working ActiveX Control -
> > although, I haven't had enough time to work on the example of using the
> > control from Visual Basic.  So, the example code was written on
> > the fly, is
> > very ugly, and basically I didn't think about organising
> > anything, just put
> > it together well enough to demonstrate *some* of the features of VNCX.
> >
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