Emulator Programmig
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How much programming experience do you have? How much in .NET?
There are a number of emulator programms on the market. Why not just buy one if that's what your company needs? There are also a number of custom controls that act as emulators that you might look into as well.
To create an emulator from scratch is a VERY big task. It involves talking through the network at a semi-low level to access the data and handle the drawing yourself (not GDI, but handling the cursor placement and text placement, etc.). It's not something that should be taken up as a week or two project.
I think I used a product from JRiver a few years ago. I may be confusing it with something else though
We talked to IBM 3270 terminals and also to a custom mainframe based application through telnet. It was ugly.
Now if you want to actually write something to be used on an emulator, that's another story. I was assuming you wanted your app to communicate with a server.
-nerseus
There are a number of emulator programms on the market. Why not just buy one if that's what your company needs? There are also a number of custom controls that act as emulators that you might look into as well.
To create an emulator from scratch is a VERY big task. It involves talking through the network at a semi-low level to access the data and handle the drawing yourself (not GDI, but handling the cursor placement and text placement, etc.). It's not something that should be taken up as a week or two project.
I think I used a product from JRiver a few years ago. I may be confusing it with something else though
We talked to IBM 3270 terminals and also to a custom mainframe based application through telnet. It was ugly.
Now if you want to actually write something to be used on an emulator, that's another story. I was assuming you wanted your app to communicate with a server.
-nerseus