An accurate and straightforward IP-based viewdata emulator.

The browser will download the control when an HTML page first requests it and then communicates with the control via the controls Properties (parameters) and Methods (functions or procedures). The calling HTML page will contain the settings for the viewdata service for GoVX to connect to and these are simply the host domain name, the host port number and the 'search/send' string or script (if required). If a secure (SSL) connection is called for then the host is authenticated via its server certificate and encryption is employed. The search/send string can be used for automatic login to a service and consists of one or more pairs of question/response substrings separated by the ‘/’ character. For example:
“User ID:/myID#/Password:/mypassword#”.
A powerful scripting facility is also available for more demanding tasks.

During emulation the keyboard is mapped as you would expect. In addition, the auxiliary keypad ‘-‘ key maps to ‘Reveal Display’ and, for convenience, the auxiliary keypad ‘Enter’ key maps to ‘#’.

Displayed screens can be printed or saved to disk as viewdata (.vdt) files.

If you have Internet Explorer you can try a demonstration of GoVX (the ABTA number and password to use are both 'demo'). You can also try it with an automatic login script.