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ReleaseNotes
Changes between versions.
Release Notes
Version 0.81
- fix for 1.1.3 firmware and saving the server lists
Version 0.71
- added the command line option "-s hostname" to auto connect if vnsea is lauched from a command line i.e. for SSH tunnels
- changed double click top status bar to single click for view only mode while connected
- added a double click while in view only mode zooms to 100% and double click again brings you back to preview zoom
- added a loading screen to show VNC is loading. Showing app screen was deceiving.
- sent to Installer App for posting.
- Full release notes coming soon.
Version 0.6
- Some bug fixes. This release should be quite stable.
- A new helper functions window that is shown with the "More" button. It contains a number of useful key commands, such as ctrl-alt-del, function keys, and so on. The fit to screen controls have also been moved here.
- A new preference to keep open connections alive when the home button is pressed has been added. A check mark is visible on the VNsea icon in SpringBoard when there is an active connection.
- Reorganised the main server list screen a little.
- A workaround has been added for very large displays or multiple monitor systems. It is imperfect, in that it cuts the display off, but the underlying problem is with the OS so not a whole lot can be done.
- Issue 6 Status display would be very handy
- Issue 7 Garbled screen with multiple monitors or large display
- Issue 8 Unable to send ctrl +alt +delete command
- Issue 69 Connection to host computer should stay open if you press the home button
- Issue 80 "New" button on Nav bar does not conform..
- Issue 83 Occassional crash when connected for a while
- Issue 86 Crashing using EDGE
- Issue 100 Please add Tab key
- Issue 101 No esc
Version 0.5.1
- Bug fixes and small improvements to the features added in version 0.5.
- The screen will automatically scroll now if you drag to the edge of the display and hold it.
- The last time a server was connected to is now shown in the list of servers.
- Issue 38 Screen doesn't scroll while dragging the remote mouse
- Issue 78 Transition to remote screen not smooth..
- Issue 79 Mouse Tracks were staying around when going back to server list
- Issue 84 Mouse tracks do not follow scrolling
- Issue 85 Mouse tracks disappear too abruptly
- Issue 91 Last connect time in Server List
Version 0.5
- Numerous bug fixes and enhancements, including adding keyboard, right mouse, landscape, and zooming support. Many thanks to new project member Glenn Kreisel for all his hard work in this release!
- Main screen reorganised a little.
- There is a new preferences screen, currently a little empty. In future versions many more preferences will be added.
- A controls bar has been added to the remote screen display. It has buttons for toggling the on-screen keyboard, modifier keys, right mouse, and zooming settings. The "X" button closes the connection. Tapping the system status bar will hide and show the controls bar.
- Issue 5 : No Keyboard access
- Issue 9 : Need to right-click
- Issue 11 : Need option to disconnect from server
- Issue 13 : Landscape support
- Issue 15 : Use placeholder values for all server info fields instead of default values
- Issue 16 : Screen Scaling would also be handy
- Issue 17 : Validate server info fields when saving
- Issue 26 : Server password field is not bulleted out
- Issue 27 : Passwords are stored in plaintext in preferences
- Issue 35 : Inability to cusomize port number
- Issue 41 : No warning when deleting a server
- Issue 50 : Show an optional target mark on the "click" hot spot
- Issue 51 : Ask for password before connecting if password left empty in server settings
- Issue 52 : Use a better keyboard layout for editing server settings
- Issue 63 : weird hang when deleting lines from gvim
- Issue 64 : Click "New Server" then Cancel..Leaves "new server" entry in server list
- Issue 65 : Sort list of Servers
Version 0.4
- Issue 23 : Double-tapping/clicking does not work
- Issue 39 : Too easy to accidentally click when chording to scroll
- Issue 43 : Hostname:port address still uses default port
- Issue 28 : Pressing the home button doesn't gracefully disconnect from the server
- Issue 29 : Cannot cancel an opening connection
- Issue 37 : Need hysteresis for mouse movement
- Issue 40 : Remote mouse can become stuck down
- Issue 42 : Connecting to server is not modal
- Issue 45 : 16-bit pixel depth uses only 4 bits per component
- Issue 46 : 8-bit pixel depth uses only 2 bits per colour component
- Issue 48 : Connecting to osxvnc server occasionally fails even when CotVNC works
- In view only mode, chording is no longer needed to scroll.
Version 0.3
- If it takes more than a moment to open a connection, an message appears saying "Connecting to server".
- Connecting is done in the background so the UI isn't frozen.
- Error messages are much better, describing the actual reason for a connection failure.
- Shimmer update checking is done in the background, to prevent the UI from becoming locked up if the update server cannot be reached for some reason.
- Major refactoring of the connection related code.
- Fixes for issues 1 and 20.
Version 0.2
- Vnsea now has very basic mouse control. Scrolling is now done with two fingers, while a single finger controls the mouse.
- Support for all encoding formats supported by CotVNC, including JPEG.
- You can control the desired pixel depth from the server settings to cut down on bandwidth.
- Better error reporting (i.e. no crash) if a connection cannot be made.
- Shimmer is included so future updates can be performed automatically.
Version 0.1
- Initial release. Very buggy, and view only.
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AWESOME! Is there a way to send a CTRL+ALT+DEL like realvnc to logon to locked desktops? If not thats a BIG feature/usability plus.
wow, incredible...i got the mouse support to work, seems if you spread your fingers just a little apart, it scrolls much better than stuck together. will there be a right click someday? and this might be a very stupid question, but is it possible to use vnsea and tightvnc in seperate networks, such as can i be on my edge network, and login to my comp at home? i could only get it to work when i jumped on my wireless on my iphone..then i was able to view and move around, but is it possible on the edge network? or another wireless network? if its already possible, how do you do it? hottschott@gmail.com thank you
Have you guys considered using JollysFastVNC instead of Chicken? From my experience Jollys is MUCH faster.
Ctrl-alt-del is coming, as is right clicking and typing and all the usual features :)
hottschott: I use vnsea to connect to my Mac at home over EDGE. It's slow, but not unusable. It helps a lot if you cut the pixel depth down from 32-bit to 16- or 8-bit. As far as crossing NATs and routers to get to your computers, I can't help you there... :)
dannyzumwalt: Interesting that you think Jollys is faster. I just did a quick comparison, connecting from work to both my remote Mac server at home (cable modem) and to the PC next to me (gigabit). The connection to the Mac was about the same between Chicken and Jollys. But connecting to the PC surprised me: Jollys was terribly slow compared to Chicken!
Also, there's the minor problem that Jollys is not open source.
how can i exit a vnsea session? is hitting the home button the only way?
Bravo dude.. Keep up the work.. This is the one thing that's keeping me on the 8525 instead of the iphone.. I neeed to be able to use VNC to admin servers.
NICE, i too use edge to connect to my mac at home using vnsea. yes it is slow but doable. it will get faster. Is there a way to open a file on the desktop with a double-tap or click.Instead i wrote applescripts and put them on my dock to automate opening windows and such, as a quick work around.
thanx again, great job!
is there a chance you'll make it a server as well?
jcy1971: yes, for now the home button is the only way to exit.
jonserr: honestly, I'm not sure how much faster it will get over EDGE; probably not much. and double-clicking will be fixed hopefully in the next release. i'll add a defect for it.
smolenicky: probably no server, at least for now.
Btw, about Chicken vs. Jollys... I'm surprised at the results of my little test (just did it again to make sure), since I've seen the Jollys demo video, which is certainly impressive. I'm curious what setup the author used to for the video.
what is the best way to connect to a pc? Chicken is only for Macs right?
This is really awesome. I am impressed. Keep up the good work.
This software is amazing! I've only had one issue so far. My LCD monitor is actually 1920 x 1200 running the latest Tight VNC, and in this resolution, the iPhone VNSea graphics look all garbled.
It works at 1600x1200 and 1680x1050, but not 1920x1200. Maybe not enough memory is allocated to hold the data in the iPhone for such a large screen size?
Setting pixel depth on either the server or VNSea appears to have no effect.
This is really amazing app. First time MAC user (iphone). Just one question so what I understood that there is no way to start any application remotely. I tried all the options that windowingly possible. What is the work around to actually running (or double clicking to start) an application. I'll appreciate the response. Keep up the good work
This is really amazing app. First time MAC user (iphone). Just one question so what I understood that there is no way to start any application remotely. I tried all the options that windowingly possible. What is the work around to actually running (or double clicking to start) an application. I'll appreciate the response. Keep up the good work
Great app! Wish list, 1) Keyboard 2) Zoom in. Great work.
Great app! Wish list, 1) Keyboard 2) Zoom in. Great work.
This is working vey well. Thanks for all the effort. I look forward to the updates.
Most excellent app, sir! No more having to trick the thin clients at work into installing TightVNC on a virtual machine! Once keyboard and MAYBE zoom (scroll works well) are implemented, this is gonna be one of those killer apps we've all been waiting on.
how may i specify a port to connect to?
how may i specify a port to connect to?
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
man this is cool!! I cant wait for the updates!
How do I install this pxl file? Do I have to go through installer.app to install this thing?
using this program the last couple of days and loving it, i'm not trying to complain, just add my 2 cents, and wondering what would be the easiest way to add funtionablity without being a pain in the ass to code well what i came up with is this could use a small menu down the bottom of the screen with buttons specifying whether a click is a single or double click, a button to bring the keyboard up, a control alt delete button, a button to control whether to drag the mouse or scroll the screen, and this program would have alot more functionality oh and to be able to select what port you connect on would be nice too, i hate to complain about the password when you already told us you want to get the program working more 1st, but its hard when i want to show people how cool it is when im afraid to because my password is visable
Absolutely fantastic work! I would like to know if you have any interest in develop an rdp client alongside this project (or even as a second protocol choice). In my experience, rdp is usable even at 56k speeds. This gives me a lot of hope for EDGE connections. I realize that rdp will probably not be a priority fpr you, at least for a while, but I wanted to make it clear that there are people interested in that type of functionality. If you have the time I suggest taking a look at rdesktop, it compiles on arm and OS X I can't imagine there would be too many issues compiling on the iPhone. I hope you keep up the great work on the vnc client!
I've found that if you tap rapidly about 6-10 times in as close proximity as possible it picks it up as a double tap. The reason why may be because it is moving the mouse then clicking so you must tap rapidly on the icon to make it recognize 2 clicks.
Great program.... similar to iPhone Remote... though without being able to pan/zoom it is hard to do much with it.
This responds much better though and hope to see it mature quickly.
Keep up good work.
Dear, marvelhous program. One trouble: at the 0.4 version, the Pixel Depth "8" dosen't work on the iPod Touch. Other comands for this version are woring fine. Thanks!
Trying to run with iPhone 1.1.1 and it does not display the hosts list... It just crashes and returns to icons... Worked with iphone 1.0.2 is this an issue you are aware of???
This software is amazing. When 1.0 comes out I'll definitely donate. If you allow donations.
I was wondering if I could get this to work with the DSM plugin "MSRC4." Where do I put the key file?
We have added pan/zoom, landscape, robust keyboard support and many many more things. Version 1.0 should be coming out this weekend.
Stay tuned!
Does VNsea allow file transfer? Or will another version allow file transfer. Or to click on a file and have it stream to your iphone, similar to the streaming of files through apache?
Would be great to also have the VNC Server ported, so that we can access the iPhone via VNC from a PC or a Mac.
Wooooh cant wait for 1.0. I'm so excited
Wow this is an amazing release. Do you guys accept donations?
Incredible. It's a little slow to refresh on the screen for Mac OS X, but I like playing around with this kind of stuff. Ah, what fun.
Try 16 bit or 8 bit screen color depth.
Didn't have any issues on VNCsea 0.4 connecting to ultravnc rc 18 for windows. With version 0.5 it sofar crashed 2 servers. And oddly, the vnsea on the iphone started to display the welcome screen on the iphone (wallpaper+iphone statusbar)
Any certain events that crashed it? On connect? While you were doing someting?
jwa999 can you enter an issue from the Issues tab above.
thanks
I was previously using web vnc through my iPhone. While I prefer the native iPhone interface, I like the functionality of some of those web features a bit better.
For instance, they have an application switcher, where you can pick the app running from a full screen list. It's too aggravating trying to click on the start bar to find the application.
Also, scroll around the screen is a bit of a nightmare with v0.5. Sometimes my two fingers will zoom instead of scroll. Personally I think you should make a "click" on and off switch, and use the standard single finger slide to navigate around the screen. And then when you want to click you turn on the click function with a button. Or maybe make it like the web version, and just click on a tap, and not when you drag or slide.
All in all, you've created a great application and I look forward to future updates. Do you have a donate link? Thanks for your time, -Rob
crlift said that he uses EDGE to connect to his Mac. It's good to know that it is possible to connect from another network, but it would be even better to know how to do it. I use a PowerBook? G4 10.4.10 Tiger. If you know how just drop me an e-mail at ice.cream.man.and.flying.eggs@gmail.com. You guys have been great : )
I have to agree with stasis here. It's really hard to move around the screen with two fingers. It's zooming and panning sporadically for me.
It works great in the "view only" mode. I think it should work just like that in the normal mode. I find that I'm accidentally clicking every where on the screen too! Like stasis said, make a "left click" button, just like the "right click" button. That way you can move around the screen freely without worrying about clicking on something on accident. Then when you are ready to click, just hit the new "L" button.
There's a few different users over at modmyifone.com that are saying the same thing as well.
http://modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5412&page=3
Thanks for your hard wor. I'm anxious for new versions and hope you'll take our feedback into consideration!
I've never had the problem of accidently clicking on something. I like the way it is
It's cool work.
Hey! Awesome app. I have a Windows Home Server running with TightVNC on. I can connect to the server and Press Ctrl + Alt + Del. But when i'm trying to bring the keybord up nothing happens... Any ideas?
Humm. YOu should be able to click the "keyboard" button on the status bar and get the keyboard to come up. Once the keyboard is visible all keys go directly to the remote server.
In version .61 I have added the ability to doubleTap on the top statusbar to toggle between view only mode.
I think this will help address the usability issues during a connection.
thanks for your great job, I will donate as soon as release 1.0 is out.
Chris, Glenn, I've translated the English "Localizable.strings" into German "/German.lproj/Localizable.strings". If you're interested you cann add the translation into the source...
--- START OF FILE ---
OpenConnection? = "Fehler beim Öffnen der Verbindung"; NoNamedServer? = "Kein Server mit Namen %@ bekannt"; NoConnection? = "Verbindung konnte nicht zum Server %@ über Port %d aufgebaut werden"; ServerClosed? = "Der Server hat die Verbindung beendet"; ServerError? = "Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten"; UnknownAuthType? = "Unbekannte Autorisierungsart"; ARDAuthWarning = "ARDAuthWarning"; AuthenticationFailed? = "Autorisierung fehlgeschlagen"; AuthenticationFailedTooMany? = "Autorisierung zu oft fehlgeschlagen"; UnknownAuthResult? = "Unbekanntes Autorisierungsergebnis"; ServerReports? = "Server Bericht"; UnknownMessageType? = "Unbekannter Meldungstyp";
ConnectingToServer? = "Verbinde zum Server…"; "Connection failed" = "Verbindung fehlgeschlagen"; "Connection terminated" = "Verbindung beendet"; DeleteServerTitle? = "Serverinformationen"; DeleteServerMessage? = "Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie diese Serverinformationen löschen möchten?"; ServerInformationTitle? = "Serverinformationen";
AboutVersion? = "VNsea 0.7"; AboutMessage? = "Copyright © 2007 Chris Reed, Glenn Kreisel\nLicensed under GPLv3\nhttp://code.google.com/p/vnsea"; StatusBarMessage? = "Copyright © 2007 Chris Reed, Glenn Kreisel";
OK = "OK"; Cancel = "Abbruch"; Save = "Speichern";
"Edit Server" = "Server anlegen";
PasswordRequestText? = "Bitte geben Sie Ihr VNC Server Kennwort ein:"; PasswordRequestTitle? = "Weitere Serverinformationen werden benötigt"; Name = "Name"; Address = "Adresse"; Password = "Kennwort"; PasswordPlace? = "Kennwort eingeben"; NamePlace? = "Session Name eingeben"; AddressPlace? = "Hostname eingeben [:port]"; Display = "Anzeige"; Shared = "Gemeinsamer Zugriff"; "View Only" = "Nur Anzeige"; "Pixel Depth" = "Pixel Tiefe"; "Delete Server" = "Server löschen";
About = "Über…"; New = "Neu…"; "VNC Servers" = "Liste der VNC Server";
ApplicationBadgeConnected? = "✔";
Preferences = "Einstellungen"; Back = "Zurück"; "Show Mouse Tracks" = "Mausbewegung anz."; "Exit App on Suspend" = "Beenden wenn Suspended";
--- END OF FILE ---
All the best for 2008 Markus vnsea @ lucassen . de
Chris, Glenn, some error/warning messages aren't outsourced in the "Localizable.strings", e.g. when you'll add a server with an empty "server name" or "address" you'll get an error box which shows a non localizable message "Server Name Field is Empty Server Address Field is Empty". If you could separate the strings into the "Localizable.strings" then they could be translated as well.
All the best for 2008 Markus (vnsea @ lucassen . de)
Why isn't 0.71 posted here for manual install?
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cant install the vnsea on my ipod, it gives me an error. anyone know whats worng?