I'm just asking because I don't know the answer this is not a criticism.
I use Windowblinds to skin my apps and windows and I noticed that V4 doesn't skin while V3 does. Is this just a beta thing?
I doubt it Robert,
By all appearances Logos is drawing on the screen through some unusual ways; and I'm rather certain that part of that completely bypasses the methods "normal" windows programs use to draw themselves. Already it does not look and act like a standard windows app. The title bar for instance doesn't extend as an upper frame around the window but instead terminates at the search button.
I use a program called Ultra-VNC for remote controlling other computers in my house, including my (headless) beta laptop. VNC works with pretty much every windows program I own, except for L4.
I can see L4 in VNC but I cannot see any of the menus or dialogs. I reported it somewhere here, but I don't think it's really a bug so much as a function of the way windows are drawn. I suspect the dialogs at least are drawn on the same kind of screen buffer that some media programs use to draw video, and in a sense circumventing normal draw routines.
We use WPF, which is the "new normal" for display, but totally different than the Win32 system in use by Windows for the past decade and more.
Thanks Bob,
I'll look into what it takes for VNC to work with WPF then.
Ah, very cool. After a bit of time devoted to reading on WPF and VNC I can see why WPF really is a much better way of drawing windows, especially in terms of remoting. The issue is that right now very few remoting protocols take advantage of either the DirectX foundation of WPF or XAML for transmitting UI data. They all still rely upon some form of bitmap rendering and distribution.
Ultra-VNC does work (and quite faster than Microsofts built in RDP) if you make sure the server is set to "enable alpha blending".
