"Manohar" == Manohar Chapalamadugu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> muses:
Manohar> Dear all I am planning to develop an online emulator so
Manohar> that clients can first check the software online and then
Manohar> invest to buy the product. I would be glad if someone can
Manohar> give me a rough idea as how to proceed. VNC doesnt seem
Manohar> to be an obvious choice. I would be using a server client
Manohar> architecture but I dont know how I can simulate the
Manohar> emulator functions and display them on the page.
I wrote a Java binding to POSE, which Keith tells me will be in the
next version, or you can get it at
http://www.jaked.org/hack/pose.3.5.patch.gz
Using this I wrote a JSP page that displays screen shots of POSE and
relays taps back to it. (You could do this just as well with the
existing Perl/Python APIs.) It worked OK. The main downsides are that
you can only transmit taps, not drags (so no Grafitti); it can't show
any kind of animation, just static screen shots; and there were some
timing issues--if the app takes too long to process a tap the screen
shot can be garbled. Maybe you could get somewhat better results by
using a Java or Flash applet on the front end instead of a raw web
page, so you could transmit drags and get occasional screen updates.
Jake
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