Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Add support for LastRect encoding 2008-11-20 Federico Mena Quintero <federico novell com>

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico novell com>]

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 20:20 +0100, Peter Rosin wrote:
> I believe the idea is that the server can start sending the
> update before it knows exactly how many rects it will need for
> the update. It can thus state that the update will contain at
> least some number of rects (probably 65535) and then end the
> update at will later. So, there is no need to consume the
> trailing rects, the server is not supposed to add any rects
> after the "last rect". I imagine that in this specific case
> e.g. a ptr movement rect can be inserted in the middle of a
> number of tight rects, even if the ptr movement happened after
> the update "started".

Yes, exactly.  This is GVNC_ENCODING_CURSOR_POS, which is currently not
handled.  If we advertise it as supported, Xvnc can send pointer updates
in the middle of the string of rectangles.

  Federico