Hi Guenther

I'm curious about this thing also. Forgive me to jump into your thread.
I just want to ask what Virusim had already asked. Could you tell me what OCX is that or just give me the URL perhaps. Is it sysinternals.com ?

Regards


>Hi,
>
>There is a DLL for getting and setting parallel port.
>It had example in C, VB and recently, I just use it
>in VFP to query my parallel port status of my printer.
>
>You can get it from wwww.internals.com
>
>BTW, can you tell me what ocx is your friend using
>to share with me on the knowledge.
>
>HTH
>
>
>
>>Hi there!
>>A colleague of mine used to use the parallel port to control all kindsa gadgets for educational purposes and programmed it in Turbo Pascal.
>>
>>He wants to keep the parallel port and not use USB e.g. cuz the HW is way cheaper. I suggested he change to VB for programming thou, but he only found a single OCX to control the parallel port and he wasn´t sure if this was supposed to actually work.
>>
>>With this being quite embarassing for me, please tell me that there are two dozen free solutions out there - or at least one that works (elegantly)!
>>TIA
>>G