G4s and NVC (was AW: VNC with MacOS 9)

[Jonathan Morton]

>Yes, the mouse is still moving. The Mac G4 with VNCserver reacts on mouse
>clicking and moving by VNCviewer - that means - the menus go down or the
>active windows changes but nothing like that happens on the VNCviewer.
>
>There are some other notes: While starting the Mac G4 with OS 9 the icon of
>VNC-Controlpanel has a red cross and when starting the VNCserver - a popup
>appears which says that the VNCpatch is to old.

Whpposie.  i managed to misread your previous post!  There is a known
problem with the G4 when running beta-2, whichh is shown by the cross
through the VNC icon on boot time (i misread as G3/350).  This also happens
(theoretically) with G4-upgraded powermacs.  I have a fixed version
available, if someone will PLEASE let me post it :).

Do you know, i'm extremely surprised it works at all.




>> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von:	Jonathan Morton [SMTP:chromi "at" cyberspace.org]
>> Gesendet am:	Dienstag, 4. Januar 2000 18:39
>> An:	vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
>> Betreff:	Re: VNC with MacOS 9
>>
>> >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-Viewe=
r
>> >(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) o=
n
>> >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, woul=
d
>> 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
>> mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org  (not for attachments)
>> uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk
>>
>> The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it.
>>
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