VNC Plugins

[Mike Eggleston]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Ben.McBeen "at" plumasbank.com wrote:

> Has anyone given thought to adding a plugin API to VNC? It seem like it
> would help with projects like ESVNC where the chief features are new
> encoding formats and functionality.
>  
> I would love to have a "Base" version of VNC that I could update small
> portions of to meet my needs. The methaphore of adding a "file transfer"
> plugin to TightVNC seems to make sense.
>  
> It also seems like it would reduce the fragmentation we all see between the
> different clients. It seems to me it would make certain projects like adding
> NT authentication much simpler to handle. Not only that, but clients could
> take advantage of new features without recompiling or rereleasing.

And I could put my database authentication in as a plug in. I do need some
way to affect the password/login dialog box at startup.

Mike