[cotvnc-devel] [ cotvnc-Feature Requests-1739346 ] Pointer shape

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Feature Requests item #1739346, was opened at 2007-06-18 15:54
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Pointer shape

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I'm running Chicken of the VNC to a MAC with OSXvnc server.
I seems thatChicken can only show 2 mouse pointer. The regular one, and a dot when the mouse pointer has a different shape : beachball / Or Filemaker's command + dot symbol.

Any chance to have on the client the same pointer shape as on the server ? Sometimes it's difficult to determine the state of an appliactaion running on the server because of this (filemaker in my case)



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Comment By: Jeff Birac (jbirac)
Date: 2008-08-22 12:12

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I'm trying to figure this out.

It seems that CotVNC needs to enable a "pseudo-encoding" called
"rfbEncodingRichCursor" (or something related) and handle the corresponding
messages sent by the server. This idea comes from looking at CotVNC code,
OSXvnc code, and the RFB Protol specification for a few hours (for the
first time).

I hope I can figure this out.

Does anybody know how to enable new encodings on CotVNC?

p.s., I would also like to enable the encoding that updates the pointer,
but that may be redundant with the Rich Cursor encoding enabled.

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