Over the years, I've used a whole variety of remote control systems all of which, at their core, do the same thing. They make what's drawn on one screen (or buffer) appear at the other end of the wire and send keyboard/mouse events back the other way.
We're very impressed with VNC mainly because it's saving us money over pcAnywhere licenses :-) But to be honest, it's screen refresh technology whilst perfectly adequate, isn't as slick as some other tools I've used: o Citrix Metaframe: works amazing well over dial-up connection. That ICA protocol really hums o GotoMyPC: very impressive as well but only ever used it over broadband. You do forget you're remote controlling o pcAnywhere: considering this is/was the market leader, it's refresh technology is pretty naff So do all these systems work in the same kind of way? Maybe keeping a copy of the screen between frames and only transmitting the differences, in a compressed data stream? I suspect that Citrix does it in a far more integrated/deep down method as it's part of the operating system. It's feasible it intercepts individual paint events! Just interested really... Cheers, Rob. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
