Or check out Aaron Ballman's instructions at:
http://www.aaronballman.com/programming/REALbasic/InpOut32RB.php
Basically it makes use of a very common DLL which you can easily talk
to from RB. He's even got all the necessary wrapped in a nice RB module.
Cheers,
+ G
On Apr 30, 2006, at 3:26 PM, joe at strout dot net wrote:
Jonathon Bevar wrote:
Ok, here's the deal my old Rapid-Q compiler could use the old
QuickBasic
commands of INP and OUTP to control the LPT or Parallel port
with. I need
to know the following:
1> Can RB do that or is there some class or plug in that I need to
use with
it?.
I believe that LPT is just a serial port. So the Serial class
would speak to that. I don't think RB has direct support for the
Parallel port, but if I'm wrong, hopefully somebody with more
experience in Windows will correct me.
2> Or, is there a Serial Port version out there I could use
without much
fuss or muss?
Version of what? I'm not sure what you're asking here. RB has had
serial support built-in since prehistoric times.
3> Or, is there someone that has got a USB solution to this age
old question
of the OLD and Tired out LPT and Serial ports?
On the Mac, we (who do robotics-type stuff) frequently need to
control serial devices from machines that have only USB ports.
Keyspan makes good USB-to-serial converters; I imagine these would
work well on a PC too.
HTH,
- Joe
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