VT100 Terminal Emulation in Windows WPF or Silverlight

Question

I\'m pondering creating a WPF or Silverlight app that acts just like a terminal window. Except, since it is in WPF/Silverlight, it will be able to \'enhance\' the terminal e

Answer 1

I don't understand why you'd be fretting about the RTF getting convoluted. Yes it will. But it isn't your burden to deal with it, a Microsoft programmer did that a while ago, having to write the code to render convoluted RTF. It works well and is entirely opaque to you.

Yes, it isn't going to be super-fast. But what the hey, you're emulating a 80x25 display that used to run at 9600 baud. Completely replacing the control to try to make it optimal makes little sense and is going to be a major undertaking.