Reducing the Screen Size ?
AceMiles, Inc.
info "at" acemiles.com
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 22:16:38 +0000
Might I suggest VNC commander.
Search the archives for the link.
On 3/1/02 3:08 PM, "Jim Brown" <jtb "at" mediaone.net> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
>> Is it possible to 'auto size' the screen via an VNC connection?
>> I'm running the VNC remote client on a half VGA screen (FeX21 HandHeld
>> PC HPC) and controlling a Win2k desktop.
>> It would be very nice if I could reduce the virtual scrolling that the
>> user has to do.
>
> Going back through my personal store of things from this list that
> might be useful to keep ;>) I find a couple notes related to
> similar functionality...
>
> I'd suggest you search the VNC archives for 'scaling scale scal
> zoom'....
>
> but here's one that seems to be pertinent, and I remember seeing
> other scaling addons in the past.
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <cjsmith "at" btinternet.com>
>> To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
>> Sent: 28 February 2000 19:03
>> Subject: Re: Zooming / Scaling in VNC
>>
>> [skip]
>>
>> Now that is a very interesting idea - I hadn't even considered that.
>> I assume you mean that the proxy should selectively filter all
>> size-oriented messages from the client, and scale those where
>> appropriate? (e.g. pen events).
>>
>> I'd also need to implement a "client" to convert the buffer data from
>> the server into a local buffer in the proxy, scale that image, and a
>> "server" from the scaled buffer to the *real* client.
>>
>> I have a VNC proxy written in Java which you could use to at least
>> experiment which this approach.
>>
>> You can download it from
>> http://www.wilson.co.uk/Software/vnc/proxy/VncProxy.htm.
>>
>> Full source is included and it's released under a BSD style licence.
>>
>> John Wilson
>> Mailto: tug "at" wilson.co.uk
>
> Best Regards,
> Jim
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