Serial Terminal Emulator
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Hi Everyone:
Hyperterminal will work just fine to talk to both
Stamp 1's and BS-2's. I use it all the time. I even use it to
talk to the Sony Machine vision cameras..of course you need to
send it the proper codes but it works without any problems.
And yes...it does work just fine with modems too..I
suspect that's what its bundled with win95-98 for.
As for using Visual Basic like a number of you have
mentioned it works fine too..if your a beginner I would suggest
that you get Jan Axelsons book "Serial Port complete"..in fact
if your not a beginner I'd suggest it..ha..She's done a very
nice job and it will save everyone a lot of time unless you
have the MS-Comm routines memorized and have purchased those
three big reference books for Visual Basic 6. Which leads to
another thing..if you want to know about VB commands and can't
seem to find any info..purchase the 3 volume set of Books from
Microsoft or get them from a bookstore..all the commands are
listed and you can find out what you need to do...although like
most books written by programmers/designers you may have more
questions after reading them..
If your just starting in VB6 or just curious and want
to do a userfriendly course with a book that has good examples
and very few errors...get: "Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Step
by Step" by Michael Halvorson, ISBN: 1-57231-809-0. You will
also need a copy of Visual Basic 6.0 I've had really good
luck with it and 60 of my students have had a lot of fun with
it and its pretty user friendly. It doesn't cover Serial Communications
but thats why you should by Jans book. It will show you how to
make up all those really neat and cool programs where you just
click on stuff with your mouse and things work..
Now for getting VB 6.0. If your a student or teacher you
can get it for less than $90. If not it costs more..so I'd
recommend you make friends with a student to get it or a teacher..
and I'd also recommend that you get your own copy..you won't
regret it. Oh..visual basic 5.0 will work fine too if you have
a copy of that..I haven't used VB4.0 so I can't really comment
on that.
If you have questions and want to contact me off the
stamp list feel free. I usually get back to my e-mail in a few
days or so..sometimes the next day. Have fun. For all of you
that know all this..please excuse the rambling..but there will
be a few that can use the information maybe [noparse]:)[/noparse]
chucks@u..., chucks@t...
Hyperterminal will work just fine to talk to both
Stamp 1's and BS-2's. I use it all the time. I even use it to
talk to the Sony Machine vision cameras..of course you need to
send it the proper codes but it works without any problems.
And yes...it does work just fine with modems too..I
suspect that's what its bundled with win95-98 for.
As for using Visual Basic like a number of you have
mentioned it works fine too..if your a beginner I would suggest
that you get Jan Axelsons book "Serial Port complete"..in fact
if your not a beginner I'd suggest it..ha..She's done a very
nice job and it will save everyone a lot of time unless you
have the MS-Comm routines memorized and have purchased those
three big reference books for Visual Basic 6. Which leads to
another thing..if you want to know about VB commands and can't
seem to find any info..purchase the 3 volume set of Books from
Microsoft or get them from a bookstore..all the commands are
listed and you can find out what you need to do...although like
most books written by programmers/designers you may have more
questions after reading them..
If your just starting in VB6 or just curious and want
to do a userfriendly course with a book that has good examples
and very few errors...get: "Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Step
by Step" by Michael Halvorson, ISBN: 1-57231-809-0. You will
also need a copy of Visual Basic 6.0 I've had really good
luck with it and 60 of my students have had a lot of fun with
it and its pretty user friendly. It doesn't cover Serial Communications
but thats why you should by Jans book. It will show you how to
make up all those really neat and cool programs where you just
click on stuff with your mouse and things work..
Now for getting VB 6.0. If your a student or teacher you
can get it for less than $90. If not it costs more..so I'd
recommend you make friends with a student to get it or a teacher..
and I'd also recommend that you get your own copy..you won't
regret it. Oh..visual basic 5.0 will work fine too if you have
a copy of that..I haven't used VB4.0 so I can't really comment
on that.
If you have questions and want to contact me off the
stamp list feel free. I usually get back to my e-mail in a few
days or so..sometimes the next day. Have fun. For all of you
that know all this..please excuse the rambling..but there will
be a few that can use the information maybe [noparse]:)[/noparse]
chucks@u..., chucks@t...
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think.
http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/index.html
There is a mail list there too, with an archive, so you will find it quite
well supported.
FWIW, the "connect" command in hyperterminal brings the DTR line high, and
"hangup" brings is low, even when connected direct to a com: port. So you
can use that to reset your stamp if you have DTR connected via a capacitor
to the Stamp's ATN reset.
-- Tracy