[Kaboodle-devel] 27 Feb 2002 Status report

[Igor Kotelevsky]

Hello Scott. A) >  If I were a perfectionist, I'd suggest changing >step #3 so that the "VNC Viewer socket" was created on 127.0.0.1:xyz, >rather than a.b.c.d:xyz. Functionally, it shouldn't matter. It's >possible, though, that the loopback interface is "faster" than a LAN >interface. Ok, now Kaboodle uses loopback address 127.0.0.1 when it make TCP connection both WinVnc server and Vnc viewer. B) About auto detection of Vnc running. I has found that maximum number of threads must not exceed 50 for Win98. (It count can be 100 for Win2000). This enlarges time, but raises reliability of auto detection. C) > Now about Kaboodle possibility "Allow only Kaboodle users to connect to > this machine"... >       The more I think about this feature, the less I like it. >For now, lets just put in one mode... >1. First mode is "use Kaboodle to control startup of the VNC server"... >2. If the first mode is not active, the second option should read... >       What are your thoughts on the schedule impact (or, even, >the idea) of #2? I like the idea. This will add extra functionality to Kaboodle. In addition this will reduce the number of requests to the user for rebooting of Vnc server. Though to implement this we will have to rewrite the existing PropertyTab "Vnc setup" for the case "Vnc server". In fact we need to add a new property tab for #2 and implement the dynamic changing between the two variants #1 and #2 under the corresponding user actions. The #2 property is quite complicated. In addition we need to modify the current implementation of "Allow only Kaboodle users to connect to this machine" functionality. D) >       Okay. Do we need the single "OK" button boxes to be >standard MessageBox's or is it fine to leave them different? I think the MessageBox should have the same style in one application. The simplest way is to make one standard style boxes. We can make the standard MessageBox thought the application if you wish. If you need a non standard MessageBox for all cases, then we have to modify the CEFMsgBox class. -Igor