Hi Thanks to all who replied to my question. Now I am clear about the concept and got what I was looking for. I knew that VNC is stateless, but I had little doubt which I couldn't put in proper way which lead to lots of questions on this and this was hotting up. Now I am happy with all the answers and thank all of you once again for detailed explanation.
Thanks Chammama --- Wayne Throop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Cham Mama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : May be my question yesterday was confusing to > many. > : Here I am putting in a different way. > : 1. I connect to a VNC Server from my office > Desktop > : 2. Then I start some application and start editing > a > : mail... Then I leave in the middle of the mail > : editing. > : (I am assuming that whatever application I am > running > : is being stored in the VNC server) > > Your assumption is a bad one. The VNC server takes > no action. > You are simply not looking at it anymore. > > : 3. Now I connect from Home Desktop to the same VNC > : Server. > : 4. As per VNC's document, I should be able to see > the > : mail editing application being started so that I > can > : complete the editing. > : So my question is, where is the VNC code which > remembers the viewers' > : state, so that when I connect from Home, gives the > same desktop (i.e > : restore the same desktop to that of the Office > Viewer, with all the > : opened applications at that time) to the new > viewer ? > > How many times, in how many ways, can the simple > message > THAT THERE IS NO SUCH CODE be given? Do you insist > that some > physical process must "save" the state of the moon, > and restore > it later when you open your eyes again? Would you > keep asking > what physical processes are "remembering" the moon > so it can > be "restored" later? > > The moon is there, and stays there, whether your > eyes are > open or not. And the desktop is there, whether > there is a VNC > viewer attached to it or not. Therefore, VNC > doesn't need to > save anything at all. > > The closest there is to it is the code that opens > the TCP connection > given the IP address and screen number of the VNC > server. It doesn't > REMEMBER anything at all; it simply connects you to > the SAME desktop. > > > Or put it this way (as Adrian Umpleby just did). > The viewer stores no state at all, so there is no > code > that saves state, since there's no state to save. > > > Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
