How does it work?
Contrary to other applications which simply try to replicate the same efficiency of the embedded Windows Terminal coded by Microsoft, our Terminal Wings is not such an emulator which "Hooks" the process of a real terminal to 'copy/paste' the screen buffer and display its contents to the custom application frame.
It also doesn't create virtual pipes to redirect output/input buffers (stdout ; stdin ; stderror) to capture send and capture terminal commands.
The reason we don't use both above methods is due to the instability of such methods. When you execute regular commands it works pretty fine, but when it comes to use more complex console programs it become quite unstable (depending of the emulator you use). So , what is our solution?
Very basically, we do not emulate the Windows Terminal at all, but we use the real one. We Patch the window and associated messages and embed it into our own frame. Well, this might sound very easy, but in effect it is quite complex to code if you want to make it appear very smoothly.
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