I never use MSCOMM.OCX, I use a Serial class writen on C++ & made an FLL for me to use it with VFP.. If You want I could send You the C++ class to You.
>My application communicates with a device in COM port.
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>In Windows XP, users don't have registry write privilege to install MSCOMM. So I cannot use MSCOMM ActiveX control.
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>Is is possible use serial port without ActiveX control ?
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>Are there any samples how to read/write data to COM port using Windows
>API directly ?
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