>I'm trying to build an SPC app that can communicate with gauges on my serial port(s). Has anyone used the MSComm control? Does anyone have anything better? Is there any documentation available anywhere?
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>Thanks for the help.
>Rock
I have used the MSCOMM control and COMMTOOLS (Hallogram sells it).
As for MSCOMM it is easy to use, but does not have built in support for file transfer protocols IE:XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM, etc...
COMMTOOLS does although it is not an active X control, just a 32bit FLL & DLL.
Still pretty easy, I use a timer to monitor DSR/DCD/RI, then establish connection and use their file transfer routines to exchange files.
BTW I am communicating with Portable barcode collection devices (SYMBOL).
I would check out the ActiveX stuff. (I had COMMTOOLS from 2.6 so i stuck with it)
Good Luck...