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RS232 to USB
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26/02/2007 13:34:33
 
 
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26/02/2007 11:37:37
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
ActiveX controls in VFP
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01198809
Message ID:
01198875
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What device will be connected via USB? If it is just a storage device, treat it like any other drive. If you need to write to it and read a response (like comm) then look at:

Re: Communications with Serial & USB Ports Thread #1143504 Message #1176865

If you are lucky, the device will be HID compliant and there is already code available here on the UT for that.

Some resources:

http://www.lvr.com/usbfaq.htm
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usbcdc11.pdf
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hermany/hid.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/resources/downloads.mspx
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=TOOLBR&q=usb+api
http://www.starlight-xpress.co.uk/developers/USBInterface.bas
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6262.aspx
http://www.delcom-eng.com/downloads/USBPRGMNL.pdf

>I have written several applications that communicate with other hardware from the PC using serial communications/rs232 via MSCOMM control.
>
>If I want to communicate with a USB device instead, how much different is that?
>
>Is there another control for that?
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