We have an application that is taking care for the communication between our hardware en software( we are using an ascii-protocol).

The hardware are controllers with there own RAM-memory.
In VFP we have a table RAM.dbf with 3 fields 'adress','data','command'
The 'adress' field that is telling us what controller this is an the adress of the RAM.
the command can have 3 values 'T' ,'R' or empty.
'T' the data in the field 'data' will be transmitted to the adress X.
'R' '' '' downloaded

The meaning of this thread is that I want to make this code reusable(OOP) and a COM object (then I can request a download over the WEB).

The problem I have is that I use microsoft' Communication control and that I have to use a form.
Or there other solutions for the serial communication (like dll's ...)