Fake or Fluke - Parallels becoming integrated in MAC OSX?

[Sirblackadder]

Hi,

while meandering through the german Apple homepage I found this article, which must be available in english language on the international apple site, too.

http://www.apple.com/de/getamac/windows.html

Look closely at the picture of the Mac. It shows a running instance of Parallels Desktop for Mac and the dock at the bottom of the screen. Notice something missing? The Parallels application icon does not show up in the dock despite Parallels is a running application.

Being relatively new to Macs I do not recognise all of the other icons so it is not unlikely that somebody at Apple just did a photo composition for this picture and pasted the parallels desktop application window onto a template desktop screenshot. But who knows...

Bye, Malte

 

[pogi]

Here's what I would like to see:

Parallels should write an interface for parallel tools and parallels desktop that would allow developers memory access in and out of the VM. THis would allow developers such as myself to write plugins to help better integrate XP and OSX.

I'm working on such a program that uses a network as the passthrough that will replicate all XP desktop windows in the VM on OS X's desktop. I wish I had a better method to implement it than over the network due to its slow speed, but... it works!

 

[unused_user_name]

That plugin sounds cool!

Got any screenshots yet?

 

[alkalifly]

I do not want to burst anyone's bubble, but these pictures are notorious for being photoshopped together often without regard for consistency. For example, maybe it will show a new version of an app that runs only in Tiger, but they pasted the window into an existing picture of the Panther desktop, then people will think the new version can run in Panther.

Not that I don't think it would be WAY COOL for a Parallels plugin like that, but I don't think this picture means it is a reality.

 

[pogi]

How's this for a confusing screenshot!?? Like i took the time to photoshop something so weird...yea..right.

I tried to "strip" the windows themes from the windows apps.. it worked in some instances except since i'm essentially taking screenshots of each window, if theres a window overlapping the other one it captures the window that is in front of it as well. the os x theme is a lot more minimal than the windows theme so it shows over the edge... oh well. everyone i've talked to says to leave the windows theme on it and get rid of the osx theme, so i'll try that next as soon as I implement mouse clicks..


Anyway... its not really a "plugin" because parallels has no such thing..so this is more like a "tool" for windows and for os x to "integrate" them together. it kinda runs like ass but..oh well for now. i'll make it better.

p.s. yes for those morons who are wondering why i'm using realbasic: because its quick and easy. and yes its not a unibin but realbasic will support them sometime in the future. If parallels ever gets to making some plugin interface i'll re-write the os x side in objective-c(which i think is lame) or carbon(which i like better)

 

[pogi]

oh btw..

here's a screenshot of "SeamlessRDP" running through rdesktop. This is essentially what I want to accomplish except to not use x11 windows and rdesktop.

p.s. whoever thinks this is photoshopped is stupid.