> Okay, that's nice. As for the actual protocol, I'm not sure how they > differ, but IIRC, RDP uses "glyphs" to achieve a higher > throughoutput. > > Would it be possible to create a proxy that sent the app_server > commands _themselves_ over the network to another computer sitting > there with its own app_server and then doing the drawing? For bitmap > data it'll be the same as a VNC-style program, but for drawing > strings, > stroking lines, fills and such, it would be a _lot_ faster. What > would > be neded, of course, is to have app_server running in a window on a > BeOS/X/Win32 system. I'm not sure how flexible app_server is in this > regard, but would it be possible to write an accellerant that drew on > an SDL surface? Because in that case, we'd have a highly viable > cross- > platform solution. That's exactly what I had in mind. > I hope I'm not annoying you guys too much. I appreciate the work you > do, and I don't understand all of it, so my suggestions might be a > bit > off. Nah. Annoying people is my job. :^) --DW