PDA via wi fi thin client

Dear all,

I'd like to deploy my Blitz3d program from a server to eg. Dell's wi fi PDA using citrix metaframe. My main problem is that I don't know how the application will look. The PDA screen res is 640x480, but it's a 3.5 inch screen. The blitz app will run 1024x768 on the server. What I would like to know is:

1. Will the 1024x768 screen be passed accross to the PDA so the user will have to scroll around to see the whole thing?

2. Will I have to re-size the server screen to 640x480 to make it 'fit' into the PDA screen?

Does anyone out there have any experience of these issues?

Cheers, Shawnus

will blitzmax run on a PDA?

Hello.

@boomboom: via metaframe there should be no problem.
@shawnus: 1 + 2) I believe you can rescale so that the 1024*768 will be displayed in the screen size you've got. At least I think so :o)

Goodbye.

Hmm interesting, but I dont have a PDA. If anyone can get a bmax app to run on PDA lemme know :)

No idea. I don't think so.

The Citrix metaframe product that the original poster talks of is something that has the BlitzMax app running on a "proper" PC, and just pipes the screen image to another target device (in this case a PDA, but for my work, I can log on at home to the works network through a web based client and access all my files / apps through that). So the app isn't actually running on the PDA, it's just the image is being shown on the PDA and mouse / key clicks are being sent back over the network to the real pc.

Yes, this is how citrix works- we deploy .net apps to wi fi laptops & tablets using the citrix ICA client on the target device, but I just wondered what would happen to a regular-sized app running on a server, sent to a PDA.

The obvious thing o try would be Microsoft's PDA emulator, but I can't make head nor tail of it. And I don't know C++.

The reason I want to do this is that it seems to be a rock-solid way of not getting my application pirated and to keep tabs on distribution and licensing.

Regards, Shanus