Re: [foxboro] Remote Draw Applications

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:17:24AM -0500, Deen, Ron wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This was quite a discussion!
> What it comes down to is that in order to work with Foxboro apps via
> anything X-like (be it VNC with its own Client Server approach or the more
> UNIX like solutions like eXceed and Reflexion etc (which are X-servers on
> the Windows platform):
> 
> -The package of choice should have a way to incorporate the Foxboro fonts as
> a fonts directory
> -You should be able to work with 256 color mapping
> -or: to have true color support you must have the "Server Visual" set to
> "pseudo color" for the X-server. 
>  EXceed did not get this working (for Foxboro anyway) until version 6.0.1.
>  As far as I know Reflexion works
> -To support the "remote draw" functions the server must support the
> functions 
>  "backing store" and "save unders" and these must be switched on the max!
> 
> 
> Sorry Stan to do this just when you were feeling much more comfortable I
> sure hope it helps a little :-(
> 

An ecelent summary of a topic that I now understand.

Thanks for sumarizing it so well.

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