On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:58:12AM -0600, ScanMan wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 03:55, A friend wrote: > > Why not, for the server, for the client it's no problem for sure. Is > > it not possible to capture the image from within a single window > > within MS-Windows? I think it is, since Alt-PrintScreen does the > > same thing. Monitoring window creation/deletion must be possible > > too. > > Hmmm, yes, I didn't think of that. However, wouldn't a global pixmap > cache solve the same problem in a more general way? For example, the > server would scan the screen for patterns that tend to repeat, and > then send them to the client only once, thereafter sending only a > reference number. Things like font characters, window borders, > buttons, icons, etc. could then all be saved at the client, and the > server would only send their arrangement.
Having font characters cached could also allow a reduction of percieved latency while typing by having the viewer guess what to display before it actually gets a screen update. Citrix does this, and it is pretty cool. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
