RealVNC, TightVNC and UltraVNC modifications
After using the VNC protocol I decided to make modifications to viewer so it could have caption bar when you entered the full screen-mode. All clones are already compiled and ready to use. When new versions are out please let me know.
Screenshoot (at the top of your screen)
Important information:
Ultr@VNC likes the captionbar and has it integrated into their default compilation. Goto their homepage and fetch the latest version of it. Thnx for the support guys
The rest of the developers (RealVNC and TightVNC) did not take the time to answer the mail, therefore the updates will take a little longer there.
UltraVNC winsrc (zip-file, 2,54MB) (version RC1.09)
RealVNC winsrc (zip-file, 918kB) (version 337)
RealVNC winsrc (zip-file, 884kB) (version 4.0b4)
RealVNC winsrc (zip-file,954kB) (version 4.0 free-edition UNICODE)
TightVNC winsrc (zip-file, 1,63MB) (version 1.2.9 stable)
TightVNC winsrc (zip-file, 2,11MB) (version 1.3 dev3)
TightVNC winsrc (zip-file, 1,78MB) (version 1.3 dev6)
I haven’t compiled it in VS2008/2010… I would take a look at UltraVNC here: http://ultravnc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ultravnc/UltraVNC%20Project%20Root/UltraVNC/vncviewer/ and check what changes they have made to the FullScreenTitleBar.cpp/h
My best guess is that is that FullScreenTitleBar.h is added two times and #pragma once is missing @ the top.
ClientConnectionFullScreen.cpp:
Error E2238 FullScreenTitleBar.h 28: Multiple declaration for ‘CTitleBar’
Error E2344 FullScreenTitleBar.h 27: Earlier declaration of ‘CTitleBar’
*** 2 errors in Compile ***
** error 1 ** deleting ClientConnectionFullScreen.obj
can you help?
I loaded your VNC-modification some weeks ago, uses it and forgot your website. So I tried Google and looked for some “About ..” or “Read me ..” – but I could not found anything. Now I found your site again per incident (searching SizeMe) ..
Maybe you want to add some “about-information” in your modification?
Thanks for the tool.
Peter
James: I’m glad that you liked the features. The sliding stuff is not my bad. I just wanted it to look like the remote desktop thingy and for users that are not familuar with the captionbar will see it
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I haven’t got any reply from the TightVNC developer on this mod, and I have added a sourceforge update message and mailed the authors. Since I did not implement it using CVS they did not bother to add it. BUT the UltraVNC developers was much nicer. After I noticed them about it they started implement it into the CVS for me. Thumbsup for the UltraVNC thumbsdown for the TightVNC.
My advice is to download a cvs snapshot from today and start implement your modifications. If the main developers like it they will publish it in a official release
Very nice, it seemed like an obvious addition and it’s good to see that someone took the time to do it. I’m not a fan of the moving tab (how it slowly moves onto/off the screen) but all in all great mod.
Have you had any interaction with the TightVNC dev’s? I’m thinking about getting involved (I’ve made some modifications before), but I don’t know where to start.
russ: Well I haven’t made any detection routine that moves the toolbar if another one exists. Maybe I’ll look into it some time
what do you think about this as a feature:
if you have several VNC clients open the “lars.werner.no” in the caption bar becomes a drop down populated with all your VNC sessions. selecting a item from the drop down switches you to the other sessions.