Serial Port.

Hi,

I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0 app.
Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.

Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any libraries,
OCXs, controls to do that

TIA

Fred
Sat Aug 13 19:14:34 CDT 2005

MSCOMM32.OCX

--
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP


"dp" <dp@none.com> wrote in message news:42fe86f6@news1.warwick.net...
> Hi,
>
> I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0 app.
> Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.
>
> Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any libraries,
> OCXs, controls to do that
>
> TIA
>
>

Ook
Sun Aug 14 22:29:59 CDT 2005

As Fred mentioned, mscomm32.ocx can work, and work very well. Unfortunately,
the docs for the control are truely pathetic. Here are some samples I put
together several years ago:

ftp://emberts.no-ip.info/stuff/COMMTEST.ZIP


"dp" <dp@none.com> wrote in message news:42fe86f6@news1.warwick.net...
> Hi,
>
> I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0 app.
> Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.
>
> Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any libraries,
> OCXs, controls to do that
>
> TIA
>
>

dp
Mon Aug 15 09:15:06 CDT 2005

Thanks a lot - yes would be nice if there were some nice docs.

"Ook" <MSNews@emberts.UpYoursSpammer.emberts.com> wrote in message
news:%23Ci0gmUoFHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> As Fred mentioned, mscomm32.ocx can work, and work very well.
Unfortunately,
> the docs for the control are truely pathetic. Here are some samples I put
> together several years ago:
>
> ftp://emberts.no-ip.info/stuff/COMMTEST.ZIP
>
>
> "dp" <dp@none.com> wrote in message news:42fe86f6@news1.warwick.net...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0
app.
> > Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.
> >
> > Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any
libraries,
> > OCXs, controls to do that
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
>

Esparta
Mon Aug 15 22:03:49 CDT 2005

There is...

--- HOWTO: Receive from the Serial Port by Using MScomm32.ocx ---
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=3D140525

--- HOWTO: Send to the Serial Port by Using Mscomm32.ocx ---
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=3D139526

--- HOWTO: Transmit and Receive Binary Data using MSCOMM32 ---
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=3D154741

--=20

=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=
=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA

Espartaco Palma Mart=EDnez
SysOp http://www.PortalFox.com
M=E9xico D.F.
MoBlogs!
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/ <- Tech
http://www.espartha.com/blog/ <- Personal
VFP Bookmarks http://del.icio.us/esparta/vfp

dp wrote:
> Thanks a lot - yes would be nice if there were some nice docs.
>=20
> "Ook" <MSNews@emberts.UpYoursSpammer.emberts.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Ci0gmUoFHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>=20
>>As Fred mentioned, mscomm32.ocx can work, and work very well.
>=20
> Unfortunately,
>=20
>>the docs for the control are truely pathetic. Here are some samples I p=
ut
>>together several years ago:
>>
>>ftp://emberts.no-ip.info/stuff/COMMTEST.ZIP
>>
>>
>>"dp" <dp@none.com> wrote in message news:42fe86f6@news1.warwick.net...
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0
>=20
> app.
>=20
>>>Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.
>>>
>>>Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any
>=20
> libraries,
>=20
>>>OCXs, controls to do that
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>=20
>=20

Ook
Tue Aug 16 09:38:12 CDT 2005

He said *nice* docs. The MS samples are rudimentary at best, and if you want
to use the mscomm control in a serious application, you still have a lot of
work to do. If you think those are bad, try using the tcpip control. I wrote
a system that allows (more-or-less) unlimited clients to establish a tcp/ip
connection to a single server, all in VFP, but it was a lot of work. The MS
docs are pathetic, and really didn't help much.

"Esparta Palma" <espartaQUITAESTOPRIMERO@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:%23Lj8h8goFHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
There is...

--- HOWTO: Receive from the Serial Port by Using MScomm32.ocx ---
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=140525

--- HOWTO: Send to the Serial Port by Using Mscomm32.ocx ---
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=139526

--- HOWTO: Transmit and Receive Binary Data using MSCOMM32 ---
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=154741

--

¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º

Espartaco Palma Martínez
SysOp http://www.PortalFox.com
México D.F.
MoBlogs!
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/ <- Tech
http://www.espartha.com/blog/ <- Personal
VFP Bookmarks http://del.icio.us/esparta/vfp

dp wrote:
> Thanks a lot - yes would be nice if there were some nice docs.
>
> "Ook" <MSNews@emberts.UpYoursSpammer.emberts.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Ci0gmUoFHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>
>>As Fred mentioned, mscomm32.ocx can work, and work very well.
>
> Unfortunately,
>
>>the docs for the control are truely pathetic. Here are some samples I put
>>together several years ago:
>>
>>ftp://emberts.no-ip.info/stuff/COMMTEST.ZIP
>>
>>
>>"dp" <dp@none.com> wrote in message news:42fe86f6@news1.warwick.net...
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0
>
> app.
>
>>>Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.
>>>
>>>Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any
>
> libraries,
>
>>>OCXs, controls to do that
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Gene
Tue Aug 16 11:57:00 CDT 2005

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:38:12 -0700, "Ook" <no usenet spam at zoot al
dot com> wrote:

>He said *nice* docs. The MS samples are rudimentary at best, and if you want
>to use the mscomm control in a serious application, you still have a lot of
>work to do. If you think those are bad, try using the tcpip control. I wrote
>a system that allows (more-or-less) unlimited clients to establish a tcp/ip
>connection to a single server, all in VFP, but it was a lot of work. The MS
>docs are pathetic, and really didn't help much.

If that is the same control that I am thinking of, I found the
same incorrect docs at a number of Web sites.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Ook
Tue Aug 16 12:02:12 CDT 2005

> If that is the same control that I am thinking of, I found the
> same incorrect docs at a number of Web sites.
>
> [snip]
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gene Wirchenko
>

I found a rather nice working demo of a client/server chat program. It
wasn't well commented, but I was able to figure out how to do certain things
by examining it. Without that demo, I may not have been able to complete the
project because the MS docs left out a few critical pieces of information :(

Gene
Tue Aug 16 14:12:15 CDT 2005

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:02:12 -0700, "Ook" <no usenet spam at zoot al
dot com> wrote:

>> If that is the same control that I am thinking of, I found the
>> same incorrect docs at a number of Web sites.
>>
>> [snip]

>I found a rather nice working demo of a client/server chat program. It
>wasn't well commented, but I was able to figure out how to do certain things
>by examining it. Without that demo, I may not have been able to complete the
>project because the MS docs left out a few critical pieces of information :(

It might have been the same docs. I found that I could not break
up the code into separate sections as I would in a real app. Finally,
I went to someone who knew it -- he was generally busy -- and asked
him. He quickly handed me the answer. It worked. So much for
finding it on the Web. I found multiple copies of that bad example
and not one correct one.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

mbills
Wed Aug 31 12:28:03 CDT 2005

I tried your FTP site for MSCOMM samples and it didn't work. is there any
other way to get these files? can you email them to martybills@yahoo.com?

Thanks,
Marty

"Ook" wrote:

> As Fred mentioned, mscomm32.ocx can work, and work very well. Unfortunately,
> the docs for the control are truely pathetic. Here are some samples I put
> together several years ago:
>
> ftp://emberts.no-ip.info/stuff/COMMTEST.ZIP
>
>
> "dp" <dp@none.com> wrote in message news:42fe86f6@news1.warwick.net...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am supposed to interface with the serial port (RS232) from a VFP9.0 app.
> > Need to send. receive set baud rate etc.
> >
> > Now I have not done that since DOS 5.0 (guess I am old). So any libraries,
> > OCXs, controls to do that
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
>
>