No cursor shown with VNC/UltraVNC1.00R18 combination
James Weatherall
jnw "at" realvnc.com
Wed Sep 1 14:03:00 2004
David,
It's normal to see that message immediately after a pixel format change. If
you see it anywhere else, then it indicates that the viewer was sent an
empty cursor by the server.
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Balazic [mailto:david.balazic "at" hermes.si]
> Sent: 01 September 2004 13:55
> To: 'David Balazic'; ultravnc-list "at" lists.sourceforge.net;
> vnc-list "at" realvnc.com; 'James Weatherall'
> Subject: RE: No cursor shown with VNC/UltraVNC1.00R18 combination
>
> It prints this twice :
>
> CView: attempting to render invalid local cursor
>
> Here is the complete output :
> VNC Viewer 4.0 - VNC Viewer for Win32, Version 4.0 Built on
> Jun 15 2004 at 14:29:29 Copyright ? RealVNC Ltd. 2002-2004
>
> Registry: duplicated 80000001 to 80000001
> RegConfig: unable to process dummy
> Threading: created RegConfig(844760)
> Registry: duplicated 50 to 58
> Threading: started RegConfig(844760)
> Registry: duplicated 80000001 to 80000001
> MsgWindow: creating window "CViewManager"
> RegConfig: RegReaderThread started
> RegConfig: waiting for changes
> MsgWindow: null _this in 2f040e, message 24
> MsgWindow: null _this in 2f040e, message 81
> MsgWindow: null _this in 2f040e, message 83
> MsgWindow: created window "CViewManager" (2f040e)
> Threading: created Native(8447f0)
> Threading: created CView(844878)
> Threading: started CView(844878)
> MsgWindow: creating window "Clipboard"
> MsgWindow: null _this in 2e0498, message 24
> MsgWindow: null _this in 2e0498, message 81
> MsgWindow: null _this in 2e0498, message 83
> MsgWindow: created window "Clipboard" (2e0498)
> Clipboard: local clipboard changed by b03ac
> Clipboard: no clipboard notifier registered
> Clipboard: registered clipboard handler
> CView: null _this in 580448, message 36
> CView: null _this in 580448, message 129
> CView: null _this in 580448, message 131
> CView: created window "VNC Viewer 4.0b" (580448)
> Threading: created ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: started ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: joining ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: stopped ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: checking ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: joined ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: destroying ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: already joined ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> Threading: destroyed ConnectingDialog(a4fecc)
> keycode=1
> selected 1
> RegConfig: unable to process dummy
> RegConfig: waiting for changes
> CConnection: reading protocol version
> CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.6
> CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.3
> CConnection: processing security types message
> CConnection: processing security message
> Dialog: string[1005]=
> Dialog: enable[1005]=0
>
> Wed Sep 01 14:52:02 2004
> CConnection: processing security result message
> CConnection: processing security result message
> CConnection: Authentication success!
> Clipboard: change clipboard chain (220134, 0)
>
> Wed Sep 01 14:52:03 2004
> CConnection: reading server initialisation
> CView: setDesktopSize 1024x768
> DIBSection: one of area or format not set
> MonitorInfo: moveToMonitor
> MonitorInfo: monitor=10001
> MonitorInfo: monitor is 0,0-1024,768
> MonitorInfo: work area is 0,0-1024,768
> MonitorInfo: device is "\\.\DISPLAY1"
> CView: setName opticus ( 10.49.2.22 )
> CConnection: initialisation done
> CView: getNativePF()
> DeviceContext: BitFields format: 32, (ff0000, ff00, ff)
> CView: requesting initial update
> DIBSection: area=786432, bpp=8
> DIBSection: recreateBuffer()
> DIBSection: refreshing palette
> DIBSection: creating 6-bit TrueColour palette
> DIBSection: refreshing palette
> CView: Using pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) rgb max 3,3,3
> shift 4,2,0
> CView: getNativePF()
> DeviceContext: BitFields format: 32, (ff0000, ff00, ff)
> CView: Using ZRLE encoding
> CView: attempting to render invalid local cursor
> CView: Throughput 20270 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding
> CView: Throughput 20270 kbit/s - changing to full colour
> DIBSection: area=786432, bpp=16
> DIBSection: recreateBuffer()
> DIBSection: preserving bitmap contents
> CView: Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
> CView: getNativePF()
> DeviceContext: BitFields format: 32, (ff0000, ff00, ff)
> CView: Using hextile encoding
> CView: attempting to render invalid local cursor
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: James Weatherall[SMTP:jnw "at" realvnc.com]
> > Sent: 31. avgust 2004 17:53
> > To: 'David Balazic'; ultravnc-list "at" lists.sourceforge.net;
> > vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> > Subject: RE: No cursor shown with VNC/UltraVNC1.00R18 combination
> >
> > David,
> >
> > It sounds as though their server isn't handling locally-rendered
> > cursors properly.
> >
> > To check what the viewer is seeing, you can try running
> your vncviewer
> > with the command-line:
> >
> > vncviewer -console -log=*:stderr:100 <host>
> >
> > to see whether it prints any messages regarding the cursor.
> >
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com
> > > [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of David Balazic
> > > Sent: 31 August 2004 14:23
> > > To: 'ultravnc-list "at" lists.sourceforge.net'; 'vnc-list "at" realvnc.com'
> > > Subject: No cursor shown with VNC/UltraVNC1.00R18 combination
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have UltraVNC 1.00 RC18 on Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6 as
> "server".
> > > Client is VNC 4.0 on Win2000Pro-SP4.
> > >
> > > There is no cursor visible, when I connect to the remote desktop,
> > > except for that little square.
> > > If I use VNC3.3.7 as client, there is no proble. If I use
> UltraVNC
> > > 1.00RC18 as client,then again there is no problem (
> regadless of the
> > > viewers "Mouse Cursor" option, both "Track remote cursor locally"
> > > and "Let remote server deal with mouse cursor"
> > > work ).
> > >
> > > I also see , that if in VNCViewer 4.0 the option
> "Misc/Render cursor
> > > locally" is turned OFF, then the cursor is visible. If it it ON (
> > > which is the default ), then the cursor is NOT visible.
> > >
> > > I did not have this problem before, when the server was runing
> > > VNCserver 3.3.7.
> > > I also do not have this problem with another server system ( also
> > > running WinVNC 3.3.7 )
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David
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