Okay, here's the problem in a nutshell. Is it possible to have one program running in the background on a PC that will actually output to other applications. I don't believe this can be done, but my boss seems to think it can be.


Specifics are: A card swipe is hooked into a terminal and controlled through Active-X Controls. He wants the information received from that swipe to be displayed on the active window, whatever window may be active at the time. This could be anything from an emulation program to an MS-DOS window to another Windows application.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks,

Dave C