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Finding out name of device connected via serial port
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04/04/2008 14:35:49
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
ActiveX controls in VFP
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01308275
Message ID:
01308313
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Yes, that occured to me as well.
I still don't have that device (it's POS terminal) so I can't try.

Since that device has USB port and maybe it is connected to PC also on USB port, is MSCOMM32 control also usable in that case?


>>>>Is there any way I can find out name of device connected via serial port using mscomm32?
>>>
>>>I doubt it.
>>
>>Any other method maybe?
>
>I doubt it, because that meant that ALL devices connected through RS232 port should have the SAME identity function. That is not an USB.
>But the connection parameter could vary from device to device and that makes identifying the device almost impossible.
>One thing you could do, send an identifying string (if you have one) to the device and if you didn't get a proper answering that means that device connected is NOT the device you expect.
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