On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Marc-André Moreau <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > This is a good overview of the problematic. > > I think we can split it in two cases: > > 1) Enhancing the base client by adding new features at runtime such as a > graphical login prompt, message boxes, etc. > > 2) Enhancing the base client by embedding it into a graphical (Qt, Gtk+) > front-end that deeply integrates with it and adds a graphical login prompt, > message boxes, etc. > > I'm working on case 2) right now with one of my employees. We are splitting > existing clients into a library + executable, where most of the client is > implemented within the library. I have a "libxfreerdp-client" library on my > branch which exports very basic functions for launching xfreerdp as a > simple function. The goal is to then extend this basic API to provide means > of receiving notifications of certain events, overriding certain > functionality like the graphical prompt, etc. My employee has been working > mostly with wfreerdp while developing in parallel a C# interface that also > abstracts the Microsoft ActiveX client, allowing to switch between the > Microsoft implementation and FreeRDP smoothly on Windows. I have started > doing similar modifications on xfreerdp last week. So far we can launch the > client and have it embedded into another window. This approach is better on > the long term than re-implementing a client like what Remmina is doing, > since we are reusing *a lot* more code from each of the platform specific > clients, and leveraging them as much as possible. > > If you are interested in this approach, let me know and I'll get you in the > loop. Our goal is to provide a simple interface that "drives" an existing > client rather than implement one, pretty much like what the ActiveX > interface to the Microsoft RDP client is doing. This way, we can easily > reuse our multiple platform-specific clients (xfreerdp, mfreerdp, wfreerdp).
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