[TYPO3-hci] Remote Usability Testing

Andreas Balzer eMail at andreas-balzer.de
Fri Jun 9 15:13:57 CEST 2006


Kasper Skårhøj schrieb:
> Following up on Andreas Balzers suggestion to use UltraVNC:
:)

> VNC viewer: I succeeded in using UltraVNCs own viewer in listen mode (on 
> windows) but couldn't get the mac VNC client "Chicken of the VNC" (hey, 
> someone chose a worse name than TYPO3!!)
funny.

>     a) preferably "Chicken of the VNC" is bugfixed to work with UltraVNC 
> SC (could someone work on that!?)
>     b) running windows on the mac in a virtual machine (possible with 
> "Parallels" on Intel Macs, possibly other solutions)
>     In both cases it is assumed that SnapZ Pro is used to capture the 
> movie. That capture application is capable of recording both screen, mic 
> in, sound out all at once (although I had strange problems with sound 
> out on my intel mac...?)
I would not prefer to say "Hey, if you want to help us, use Windows.." 
We should find a second program for testing on a mac.

> 
> However, there remains a very critical problem after testing this, one I 
> didn't foresee: You cannot see the cursor on the remote machine move! 
> This seems to be a general feature of a VNC server - that it only 
> accepts incoming keyboard and mouse movements but doesn't transmit other 
> than the screen from the server! This has to be fixed somehow for this 
> technique to be useful. We will need a VNC wizard to help us here.
Afaik it's possible with the full version of ultravnc server. I'll ask 
in their board for help.

Andreas



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