nanogui: Thread: question for the FAQ (vnc)

Dear nanogui folks,

I'd like to know how this project relates to the
VNC (virtual network computing) protocol
from ORL. VNC is interesting because
GPL'd implementations exsit for
many platforms already, and include network
support with a decent security model (or so
I've been told) scaling all the way down to the
palm pilot which has almost no resources,
yet also works for reasonably high-end applications.

It seems like nanogui is crying out to be VNC compatible.

This seems like a question many embedded & PDA
developers are likely  to have so I would really like to
see it addressed in the FAQ.

    pehr anderson
    developer, http://www.eink.com
    (we make a new kind of electronic display)

ps.
VNC information is available at:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/04/14/892543649.html
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html

> > It seems like nanogui is crying out to be VNC compatible.
> 
> Nobody's stopping you from writing it yourself. It sounds interesting, but
> I want to get the basic functionality in place before starting on all the
> bells and whistles...

Right now the code thinks it will always want to map a frame buffer and
play with it but that is a minor glitch to fix (and wants fixing anyway
for a MITSHM edition for debugging with). The rest of the drawing engine
lends itself very well to being a VNC server.

Alan