VNC with MacOS 9

[Jonathan Morton]

>Hello,
>
>i have installed the Beta2-version of VNC on Macintosh G4/350 with MacOS 9.
>There are some problems with the settings of the MacVNC-Server but more
>heavier is following: When i connect the Mac-VNC-Server from a VNC-Viewer
>(e.c. WinVnc on NT 4.0) i can see the desktop from the Mac but clicking ( in
>WinVNC) on any menu from e.c. the Finder, the menu appears (pull down) on
>Mac-Desktop but not in the WinVNC-Window.
>
>What to do?

Yikes.  Looks like there are quite a few changes in OS9, but this is the
first i've heard of problems with VNC.  I don't run OS9 myself, so I can't
suggest very much - except to say that beta-2 runs OK under OS 8.6 (on my
powerbook 5300 at least).  I've also been working on a couple of bugfixes
for beta-2, but which shouodn't affect menus very much - these fixes
haven't been released yet, but may be soon while beta-3 is still in the
background.

Can I ask: does the mouse carry on moving while the menus are down?  If so,
then a patch to make it work should be easy.  If not, then Apple did
something screwy to the menus in OS9 which will be a Pain.  Personally I
don't run any new OS until it's been proven and some of the bugs found (and
usually fixed).  I only wish more users, particularly windows users, would
do the same, and then we'd have a lot less buggy software :).


PS:
Can someone PLEASE do something about the Realtime BlackList mails I get
every time I post to this list?

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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