Igor:
I checked today, and my Macintosh is still not being
treated like a PC in regards to VNC. Perhaps we should fix
this again, this time from the "icon code" or "NID type" point
of view.
-Scott
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Scott C. Best wrote:
> Igor:
> Okay, I think you've found the problem then. Macintosh PC's
> really should be treated as just a subset of PC's. The *only*
> difference should be that, at startup, they are given a different
> icon and put into a different Icon group. But *that's all*. So
> it sounds like your changes to CEnumAllDevice are correct. It
> may have been easier to just have changed the "icon code" instead.
>
> Really, there are only three types of devices: PC's (ie,
> something that can run Kaboodle *or* VNC; Windows, MacOs, Linux,
> whatever), Printers, and Appliances (eg, a LinkSys router). This
> "type" field should be one of the first-most fields of the NID,
> I would think.
>
> Ideally, the user should be able to *change* the auto-
> detected type of a device in the "Icon Property" PropTab. If they
> change, say, what we detected as a Printer to a PC, not only should
> they be able to change the icon, but the "VNC Tab" should appear
> in the PropPanel the next time it's opened.
>
> -Scott
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Igor Kotelevsky wrote:
>
> > Hello Scott.
> > You wrote:
> > > > > 3. If I startup a VNC server on a PC not running Kaboodle, I
> > > > > can go the the PropPanel for that device and connect. No
> > > > > problem. But the VNC Service icon is not listing the device
> > > > > as a server, and the VNC halo is not being put on the device
> > > > > correctly.
> > > >
> > > > I saw similar bugs.
> > > > It was several days earlier.
> > >
> > > I've some more data. It only happens for me now if the
> > > VNC server is running on a Mac. I've got two other machines on
> > > my LAN that run VNC: a Mac and a WinNT laptop. The WinNT box
> > > is treated correctly by Kaboodle: it gets a VNC halo and it gets
> > > listed in the VNC servers in the VNC service icon. The Mac,
> > > though, doesn't get either. I can use Kaboodle to VNC into it,
> > > but only if I go thru the device's icon.
> > >
> > > Perhaps some of the code is looking at the "type" field
> > > of the NID, and only reacting to PC's, not Mac's?
> > *****************************************************
> > I don't know "MAC" part of Kaboodle's specification,
> > so all my discourses carry the approximate nature.
> > *****************************************************
> > Kaboodle source code has 30 strings which contain "type" field *EF_NID_PC*.
> > If your assumption is valid, then I think following.
> > Please see the class CEnumAllDevice in the file EF\ModifyRegWinVNC.cpp.
> > In the header file you can found following:
> > // This class enumerates all local object CNIDDevice which is PC.
> > // Own PC non include in this list.
> > That class enumerated PC device only.
> > The MAC objects were absent in Kaboodle when I wrote that class.
> > It seems to me that now the class CEnumAllDevice has to enumerate MAC
> > device also.
> > I added that enumerating into the class CEnumAllDevice.
> > But I must to underline next.
> > Current Kaboodle source code uses the class CEnumAllDevice in following
> > cases:
> > 1) - for VNC autodetection;
> > 2) - for filling list of VNC service icon;
> > 3) - for filling list of "Modify list" dialog
> > (please see "VNC setup" prop tab on server side);
> > 4) - for filling list of File Transfer service icon;
> > 5) - for filling list of "Accept files only from machines in..." dialog
> > (please see "Receive file" prop tab in File Transfer service icon).
> > Now all of #1-#5 will include not only PC devices, but also MAC devices.
> > Please let me know if it is not correct.
> > *****************************************************
> > Sorry, I didn't have a MAC PC in my LAN, so I cannot check above.
> > *****************************************************
> > Some other developers (I and Oleg) saw that bug on non MAC PC.
> > So I think that source code have also other NID updating bug.
> > *****************************************************
> > -Igor
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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