Using the Terminal control in your program is so easy that you can add it to your program and be up and running in minutes, not days or weeks. Without it, you're on your own and the water is deep.

With the terminal control, you can add an unlimited number of triggers (character sequences). Each is associated with a number. As the terminal monitors the incoming traffic, it is scanning for a match with one of the trigger strings. Wnen one is spotted, an IncomingTrigger event is fired; it sends the associated number to you so that you can get right to the business that the trigger is supposed to do in your application.

ALSO, you can define character sequences (Macros) to be sent when a bound key is struck. An unlimited number (well, limited by the number of keys, including shifted, control, alt) of commands can be defined and are stored in a linked list.

In addition, you can bind keys to commands. When a bound key is struck, a "KeyEvent" event is fired; the event handler will see the number associated with the key, and voila! You've got a programmed terminal. What you do in the event handler is strictly up to your imagination.

Greenleaf CommX from sysFire takes care of all these problems for you with an easy to use Terminal control. For programming environments like Visual Basic, creating a terminal emulator can now be done by simply dropping the control on a form and adding a single line of code to initialize the port!