[dba-Tech] OT: Is anyone into controllers?

wow, thanks a lot, Stuart,

I did use Power Basic some years ago, so I will go and install it and use it 
for this.

thanks
Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: Is anyone into controllers?


> On 27 Sep 2006 at 10:30, Lembit Soobik wrote:
>
>> oh, thats great. Thanks a lot.
>> now I only need to find out how to talk to the serial,
>> but I think there must be some dll or such around somewhere.
>
> In Access, or VB the simplest way is to use the MSComm control.
>
> Personally, I use PowerBasic (http://www.powerbasic.com) for this sort of
> thing. Here's a bit of sample code to show how complicated it is to write
> something to a serial port <g>:
>
>    LOCAL strPort AS STRING
>    LOCAL strData AS STRING
>    LOCAL lngFilenum as LONG
>
>    strPort = "COM1"   'comm port to write to
>    strData =  "ATZ" & CHR$(13,10)  'data to write to port
>
>    lngFileNum = FREEFILE 'get next free handle
>
>    COMM OPEN portstr AS lngFilenum
>    COMM SET lngFilenum, BAUD = 9600   ' 9600 baud
>    COMM SET lngFilenum, BYTE = 8      ' 8 bits
>    COMM SET lngFilenum, PARITY = %FALSE  ' No parity
>    COMM SET lngFilenum, STOP = 0 ' 1 stop bit
>    COMM SET lngFilenum, TXBUFFER = 2048 ' transmit buffer
>    COMM SET lngFilenum, RXBUFFER = 4096 ' receive buffer
>    COMM SEND lngFilenum, strData
>    COMM CLOSE lngFilenum
>
> One of the sample apps that come with PB contains all the code you need to
> read and write to a comm port.
>
>
> -- 
> Stuart
>
>
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