which container for a terminal like app?

[agelanyi]

hi,
i am completely new to this flex thing but at a first sight i really like it.
i'd like to develop a terminal like app in flex2 for the presentation tier of
my java code. do you know any useful (built in) container or text output mode
for this kind of behavior?
or do you have any suggessions how could i start to create a new one with
exact char positioning and handling of various keypresses?
i would appreciate any comments.
regards,
andras

[ntsiii]

I do not know what you mean when you say, "terminal like ...kind of behavior ".

Or, to be honest, what you mean by "exact char positioning".

Can you give us some more detail?

Tracy

[agelanyi]

i would like to build a character terminal frontend. fo this i need something
like a matrix of characters. (eg. tell the char at 10th line 2nd row to change
color and handle almost all kind of keypresses.)
later it would be good to extend the features to support full ansi, vt100
standards.

[ntsiii]

Ahh, I see, you really mean "terminal"! Using an RIA to simulate a
character-based UI, what an interesting idea.

I am sorry but i don't have many suggestions. This is definitely counter to
the direction of usual RIA thinking.

If you used a TextArea control with a fixed-pitch font, you could probably use
the selection manager methods to manipulate individual characters successfully.

Good luck!

Tracy

[agelanyi]

yes, i want to build some legacy support on flex that is definitely not the ria way. :)
anyway, thanks for your suggession!