John W. Colby
jcolby at ColbyConsulting.com
Tue Apr 29 12:16:57 CDT 2003
Julie, I have not done that specifically however I have read the serial port for many different reasons including bar code scanners. The easiest way I found was to use the comm ocx that comes with VB. It is a control that you simply place on a form. It has events that fire when buffers fill and empty, properties for setting up the com port etc. I then wrote a Withevents class to handle the object. It worked very well and was almost trivial to set up. The only problem is that it comes with VB so you have to have a license for VB to distribute it. I imagine there are other such ocxs available however. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Julie Reardon-Taylor Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:07 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] RS-232 Cable Connection Feeding Weights into Access Field Hi Everyone, I'm going to attempt to collect a "weight" from an industrial digital scale and place that weight in my Access Project so that the users don't need to type it in. I know that I can use an RS-232 connection. Has anyone done this? Julie Reardon-Taylor PRO-SOFT OF NY, INC. www.pro-soft.net _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ----------------------------------------------------- eMailBoss puts you in command of your email. Get your copy today at http://www.eMailBoss.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2600 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030429/c3981a5a/attachment-0001.bin>