[ANN] TridiaVNC 1.4.0 publicly available

From: W. Brian Blevins (brian.blevins@tridia.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 10:11:09 EST

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    Tridia is proud to announce the public availability of TridiaVNC
    release 1.4.0. This version contains all of the enhancements added
    to the TridiaVNC product during 4Q 2000. You may obtain this release
    from:

    http://www.tridiavnc.com/
        -> Free Download

    Following are the release notes documenting the updates contained in
    this version since the last public release (1.2.2):

    ******************************************************************
    ******************* THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE FOR: *****************
    ********************* TridiaVNC Version 1.4.0 ********************
    ******************************************************************

    [WIN32] 16-Jan-2000: Windows Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - TridiaVNC 1.4.0 certified on Win32 platforms.

    [LINUX INTEL, AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS] 16-Jan-2000: Unix Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - TridiaVNC 1.4.0 certified on Unix platforms.

    ******************************************************************
    ******************* THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE FOR: *****************
    ********************* TridiaVNC Version 1.3.3 ********************
    ******************************************************************

    [WIN32] 7-Dec-2000: Windows Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Added registry flag to cleanly disable the tray icon on all
      platforms and in all modes without affecting other settings.
      The default is "0" and indicates that the tray icon should not
      be disabled. A value of "1" will suppress the tray icon for
      all users.
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\DisableTrayIcon DWORD "0"
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\DisableTrayIcon DWORD "1"
    - Added "BeepConnect" and "BeepDisconnect" registry flags to sound
      the default system beep upon a successful VNC connection and/or
      disconnection.
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default\BeepConnect DWORD "0"
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default\BeepDisconnect DWORD "0"
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\<user>\BeepConnect DWORD "1"
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\<user>\BeepDisconnect DWORD "1"
    - Accept dialog appears only after the remote user has provided
      the necessary password.
    - Added "QueryAccept" registry flag to allow the accept dialog
      to default to accepting connections after the time-out expires
      with no user input.
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default\QueryAccept DWORD "0"
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\<user>\QueryAccept DWORD "1"
      The default is to reject connections when the accept dialog
      times out, which is the same as a setting of "0". A setting
      of "1" will allow the incoming connection after the time-out
      expires. The local user can still reject the connection
      before the timeout.
    - Fixed authentication dialog bug where the cancel button failed
      to exit the program. Also limited the authentication retries
      to three attempts, after which the viewer exits.
    - Upgraded installers to InstallAnywhere 3.5 Enterprise. This
      provides enhanced support for WinNT 5.0 (aka. Win2000) and
      WinME.

    [LINUX INTEL, AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS] 7-Dec-2000: Unix Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Upgraded installers to InstallAnywhere 3.5 Enterprise.

    ******************************************************************
    ******************* THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE FOR: *****************
    ********************* TridiaVNC Version 1.3.2 ********************
    ******************************************************************

    [LINUX INTEL, AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS] 15-Nov-2000: Unix Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Added Tim Waugh's "-interface ifaddr" command line option to the
      Xvnc server to specify the interface on which the server should
      listen for RFB connections. Note that X connections are still
      accepted from all interfaces.
    - Added TrueType font support to the Xvnc server from the xfsft
      project. Providing a new tool called "mkfontdir" to help build
      font directories containing TrueType font files. Added
      fonts.scale and encodings files to distribution to aid in the
      preparation of font directories.
    - Integrated all AT&T 3.3.3r2 updates. Provides "vncconnect"
      tool to send a display from the unix server.
    - Fixed core dump in hextile and zlibhex on RISC systems when
      a 32 bit (or 16 bit) connection is requested.

    ******************************************************************
    ******************* THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE FOR: *****************
    ********************* TridiaVNC Version 1.3.1 ********************
    ******************************************************************

    [WIN32] 26-Oct-2000: Windows Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Added desktop optimizations upon initial VNC connection from
      Jeremy Peaks with many updates. The following registry entries
      turn on the optimizations:
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\OptimizeDesktop REG_SZ "Yes"
            disables all four: full window drag, font smoothing,
            wallpaper and pattern
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\DisablePattern REG_SZ "Yes"
            disables desktop pattern
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\DisableWallpaper REG_SZ "Yes"
            disables desktop wallpaper
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\DisableFontSmoothing REG_SZ "Yes"
            disables desktop screen font smoothing
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\DisableFullWindowDrag REG_SZ "Yes"
            disables desktop full window updates during drags
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\ResHeight REG_SZ "#pixels#"
        HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\ResWidth REG_SZ "#pixels#"
            when present together, gives new resolution to enable
            upon VNC connection
      Please note that there is a bug which prevents pattern disabling
      from working on WinNT 4.0 and 5.0 (Win2k) currently. Note also,
      these are *string* values, not the usual DWORDs used elsewhere
      in the WinVNC server.

    [LINUX INTEL, AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS] 26-Oct-2000: Unix Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Added Tim Waugh's updates to the iXvnc patch.
    - Added the "-nolocalcursor" option to the vncviewer to optionally
      disable the local "dot" cursor.
    - Integrated Andre Moriera's iXvnc patch. The TridiaVNC Xvnc
      server can now be launched from inetd, using the "-inetd"
      command line parameter.

    ******************************************************************
    ******************* THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE FOR: *****************
    ********************* TridiaVNC Version 1.3.0 ********************
    ******************************************************************

    [LINUX INTEL, AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS] 17-Oct-2000: Unix Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Applied Tim Waugh's patch to resolve the password dialog bug
      uncovered on RedHat 7.0.
    - Made the zlib compression level configurable on the vncviewer
      command line "-compresslevel #".
    - Added tight 1.1 encoding from Constantin Kaplinsky to vncviewer
      and Xvnc server.
    - Added zlibhex encoding to vncviewer and Xvnc server.
    - Removed minor extra raw tile copy in hextile encoder.
    - Modified unix viewer to default to shared session.

    [WIN32] 17-Oct-2000: Windows Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Made the zlib compression level configurable in the vncviewer
      options dialog.
    - Added tight 1.1 encoding from Constantin Kaplinsky to vncviewer
      and WinVNC server.
    - Added zlibhex encoding to vncviewer and WinVNC server.
    - Resolved an installer problem where the Online help shortcut was
      not being created properly.
    - Removed minor extra raw tile copy in hextile encoder.
    - Modified win32 viewer to default to shared session.

    [JAVA] 17-Oct-2000: Java Viewer Updates
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    - Added zlibhex encoding to java viewer.
    - Fixed keyboard focus to automatically be in password field.
    - Modified java viewer to default to shared session.

    -- 
    Brian 
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