On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 09:15  PM, Ian Piumarta wrote:

> Jon,
>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jon Hylands wrote:
>>
>> As a piece of my AUV software, I'd like to write a remote 
>> development/debugging
>> feature that I will use to work on Squeak running on a PDA from a
>> workstation, over a socket connection.
>
> Unless I've totally misunderstood what you're after...
>
> If the PDA has sufficient memory to support a fullish image and a 
> biggish
> BitMap then I think I'd be inclined to try using the VNC/RFB package on
> SqueakMap, which implements the server-side of the RFB protocol 
> entirely
> within Squeak.  (It's 'alpha' code so might require some tidying up to
> make it reliable.)  You could then start an image on the PDA and 
> connect
> to it from a VNC viewer on the workstation.  You'd have an entire 
> Squeak
> development environment running on the PDA and displaying remotely on 
> the
> workstation.

In principal, I think this is workable, but the VNC package has a long 
way to go before it'll be useful. My own itch has faded somewhat, so I 
haven't paid VNC much attention lately, but I'd be happy to help get it 
working if anyone wants to actually use it.

Colin