Mirror application into another one.

[Emanuel Messias]

In theory, would it be possible to mirror the screen of one application in another application? Also, on the same machine.

It's just a theoretical question, I haven't really started anything yet, I'm just researching a little bit about it.
I don't know if "screen" is the appropriate term, but I think it was understandable, it's literally showing visually an application and its content within another one (and that you can interact with).

Similar to apps that allow you to view and control the machine remotely, but in that case, control specific software from another and all of that on the same computer.

Thanks,
- Messias.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

You need to separate the code into business logic and display. You should do that anyway, as a principle of good design. Then you create an object to represent the application and you can pass references to that object to several other objects representing displays. One might show it in a frame and the other in an internal frame. You can have a component representing the display and show that display object in several places by a similar process.
I am not sure whether that would be called mirrored applications. It would be the same application appearing in several places, definitely.

[Stephan van Hulst]

Yes, it's possible.

Applications for online conferences often offer the feature to allow another user to control your screen or a specific window or application, so it's definitely possible.

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