API changes:
- include/canvas.js renamed to include/display.js
- Display.rescale() method removed from API. Use Display.set_scale() instead.
- Make logo configuration attribute of Display and display it when
clear() is called if it is set.
API deprecations:
- use RFB onUpdateState instead of updateState.
- use RFB onClipboard instead of clipboardReceive.
See https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/wiki/ModuleAPI for detailed noVNC
modules and API description.
Expand and normalize the event/callback interfaces. Standize on
"onEventName" form for callbacks.
Callback Renames:
- RFB updateState -> onUpdateState
- RFB clipboardReceive -> onClipboard
- Keyboard keyPress -> onKeyPress
- Mouse mouseButton -> onMouseButton
- Mouse mouseMove -> onMouseMove
Callback Additions:
- RFB onPasswordRequired
- RFB onBell
- RFB onFBUReceive
- RFB onFBUComplete
Other:
- Add array type support to Util.conf_default()
- Removed a bunch of routines from the Display API that were just used
internally and not actually by noVNC: flush, setFillColor,
imageDataGet, imageDataCreate, rgbxImageData, rgbxImageFill,
cmapImageData, cmapImageFill.
- More keyboard/mouse logging when debug turned on.
- Some JSLinting
Rename the $() selector to $D() so that it doesn't collide with
the jQuery name.
The API change is that the 'target' option for Canvas and RFB objects
must now be a DOM Canvas element. A string is no longer accepted
because this requires that a DOM lookup is done and the Canvas and RFB
should have no UI code in them. Modularity.
- Add meta tag to vnc.html and vnc_auto.html so that if Chrome Frame
is installed, it is used.
- Add detection to default_controls.js that shows a message with
a Chrome Frame install link if the user is using a version of IE
without Canvas support.
- Fix web.py so that requests have their connection closed after they
are completed. This has been a bug for a while but it prevents
Chrome Frame from working because Chrome Frame doesn't activate
until the initial request connection closes.
- util.js that contains essential functions
- webutils.js that contains the GUI utility function.js
this helps to include noVNC in other project, especially Cappuccino Application
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New API:
To use the RFB object, you now must instantiate it (this allows more
than one instance of it on the same page).
rfb = new RFB(settings);
The 'settings' variable is a namespace that contains initial default
settings. These can also be set and read using 'rfb.set_FOO()' and
'rfb.get_FOO()' where FOO is the setting name. The current settings
are (and defaults) are:
- target: the DOM Canvas element to use ('VNC_canvas').
- encrypt: whether to encrypt the connection (false)
- true_color: true_color or palette (true)
- b64encode: base64 encode the WebSockets data (true)
- local_cursor: use local cursor rendering (true if supported)
- connectTimeout: milliseconds to wait for connect (2000)
- updateState: callback when RFB state changes (none)
- clipboardReceive: callback when clipboard data received (none)
The parameters to the updateState callback have also changed. The
function spec is now updateState(rfb, state, oldstate, msg):
- rfb: the RFB object that this state change is for.
- state: the new state
- oldstate: the previous state
- msg: a message associate with the state (not always set).
The clipboardReceive spec is clipboardReceive(rfb, text):
- rfb: the RFB object that this text is from.
- text: the clipboard text received.
Changes:
- The RFB and Canvas namespaces are now more proper objects. Private
implementation is no longer exposed and the public API has been made
explicit. Also, instantiation allows more than one VNC connection
on the same page (to complete this, DefaultControls will also need
this same refactoring).
- Added 'none' logging level.
- Removed automatic stylesheet selection workaround in util.js and
move it to defaultcontrols so that it doesn't interfere with
intergration.
- Also, some major JSLinting.
- Fix input, canvas, and cursor tests to work with new model.
The following API changes may affect integrators:
- Settings have been moved out of the RFB.connect() call. Each
setting now has it's own setter function: setEncrypt, setBase64,
setTrueColor, setCursor.
- Encrypt and cursor settings now default to on.
- CSS changes:
- VNC_status_bar for input buttons switched to a element class.
- VNC_buttons split into VNC_buttons_right and
VNC_buttons_left
- New id styles for VNC_settings_menu and VNC_setting
Note: the encrypt, true_color and cursor, logging setting can all be
set on load using query string variables (in addition to host, port
and password).
Client cursor (cursor pseudo-encoding) support has been polished and
activated.
The RFB settings are now presented as radio button list items in
a drop-down "Settings" menu when using the default controls.
Also, in the settings menu is the ability to select between alternate
style-sheets.
Cookie and stylesheet selection support added to util.js.
Add new states 'loaded', 'connect' and 'fatal':
- Loaded state is first page state. Pass WebSockets mode message using
this state.
- Connect indicates that the user has issued a "connect" but we
haven't gotten an WebSockets onopen yet.
- Fatal is a condition that indicates inability to continue on: right
now, lack of WebSockets/Flash or non-working canvas.
Move much of the actual state transition code into updateState.
Handle 'password' state better in default_controls.js; instead of
disconnecting, prompt for password to send.
Add comments to updateState indicating possible states.
Instead of relying on FABridge AS -> JS event delivery, we just use
the events to notify JS of pending data. The message handler then
calls the AS readSocketData routine which sends back an array of
the pending WebSocket frames.
There is still a minor bug somewhere that happens after the first
connect where the web-socket-js throws an "INVALID_STATE_ERR: Web
Socket connection has not been established". But, Opera is now usable
and we should be able to drop the packet sequence numbering and
re-ordering code.
Another minor issue to better support Opera is to move JS script
includes to the <head> of the page instead of after the body.
Some default_controls.js jslinting.
Needs to be some modularity between controls you probably always want
(like sending CtrlAltDel) and how the interface is presented and
controlled.
Move DOM manipulation into include/default_controls.js and update
vnc.html to use it.
Add an example vnc_auto.html which automatically connects using
parameters from the query string and doesn't use default_controls.js.
Reorder functions in vnc.js to put external interface functions at the
top of the RFB namespace.
Anthony Young
Joel Martin
Antoine Mercadal