Re: What the use of vnchooks.dll ?

Sean Covel <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:20:05 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.vnc.ultravnc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at http://forum.ultravnc.net/

Georges,

What are you trying to accomplish?

vnchooks.dll is used by the server.

Sean

Georges Berenger wrote:
> For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at http://forum.ultravnc.net/
> 
> I see, thanks. Is the driver of any use for other apps than the one
> listed in the reg file? If I am not interested in any of those apps, can
> I safely not install the dll? Can I safely ignore that dll?
> -georges 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Ultravnc-list] What the use of vnchooks.dll ?
> 
> For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at
> http://forum.ultravnc.net/
> 
> VNCHooks.dll is used by VNC to capture and process windows messages sent
> to specific clients.  This DLL uses the registry entries in
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCHooks\Application_Prefs to get hints
> about specific misbehaved apps.  The hints help VNC to use different
> methods for finding updates to the apps windows.  The registry entries
> are created by VNCHooks_Settings.reg.
> 
> Sean
> 
> Georges Berenger wrote:
> 
>>For the last weeks, I have been ignoring the vnchooks.dll, that 
>>appears to be used, under certain conditions (unknown to me), by the
> 
> winvnc server.
> 
>>I am always using the Mirror driver. I was wondering what the 
>>vnchooks.dll is for and if I need it at all.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-georges
>>
> 
> 
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