Re: [foxboro] Remote Draw Applications


Hi All.

Here is my two cents worth.
First, I use VNC on a WP51-D, and ICC, and *ALL* configurators work
perfectly.
Second, VNC has nothing to do with fonts, remote draw, or save_unders.
Think of VNC as a  "screen scraper".  It sends an image of what is on the
server's screen to the VNC client.
Third, it is much faster than eXceed on dial-up accounts.
The real beauty of VNC is that it is open source, and servers (and clients)
have been developed for SOLARIS, win32, and MAC (and client for PALM OS).
Therefore you can access a win(95/98/NT4/NT5/etc) desktop on a Mac. or a
SUN box or LINUX box or even a Palm Pilot  with no configuration on the
client end.
You can also access a SUN box on a MAC or win32 etc.
BTW, it is a free download from
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html.

      -Brian Bates.



                                                                                
                                                  
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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 :-(


Regards

Ron Deen
Senior System Service Specialist
Invensys Systems N.V.
Baarnsche dijk 10   P.O. Box 146   3740 AC Baarn   The Netherlands
T: +31 (0)35 54 84 233   F: +31 (0)35 54 84 175
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-----Original Message-----
From: stan [mailto:stanb@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 20:33
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Remote Draw Applications



On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:48:23PM -0500, Johnson, Alex (Foxboro) wrote:
>
> When the I/A Series was developed, there were a number of constraints on
the
> developers. One of them was the lack of technology for drawing on a WP
from
> an AP. Remember that WP's were diskless then - basically thin clients.
>

Just when I think I've uncovered all the dusty little bits :-)

I remeber RFS, it was a better idea, that was unable to displace the
de-facto standard.

Thansk for educating me on this. I feel much more confortable now.

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