Serial Terminal Errors in Vista
bubbagimp
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I've about had it with vista. The only thing stopping me from ditching it is the fact I would have to give them MORE money to downgrade /rant
That aside, I can use the Javelin IDE and FTDI drivers (USB -> Serial) to connect to my Javelin stamp however I can't use anything else. I've tried a couple programs, 232Analyzer and Putty. With 232Analyzer I get the error tabctl32.ocx or one of its dependents is missing. Using Putty I get a "ding" with no error message. I've verified tabctl32.ocx is registered, however I have no clue what dependents it wants. I scoured google for over an hour and apparently I don't know what I'm searching for. Anybody know anything I could try before this computer is out in the rain?
Thanks
Edit: Found a link to JideWinTerm from Peter, that did the trick. Still unsure why other programs don't work but at this point I really don't care.
Post Edited (bubbagimp) : 7/4/2008 12:44:09 PM GMT
That aside, I can use the Javelin IDE and FTDI drivers (USB -> Serial) to connect to my Javelin stamp however I can't use anything else. I've tried a couple programs, 232Analyzer and Putty. With 232Analyzer I get the error tabctl32.ocx or one of its dependents is missing. Using Putty I get a "ding" with no error message. I've verified tabctl32.ocx is registered, however I have no clue what dependents it wants. I scoured google for over an hour and apparently I don't know what I'm searching for. Anybody know anything I could try before this computer is out in the rain?
Thanks
Edit: Found a link to JideWinTerm from Peter, that did the trick. Still unsure why other programs don't work but at this point I really don't care.
Post Edited (bubbagimp) : 7/4/2008 12:44:09 PM GMT
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In this case Vista is not to blame. Those programs you used would not have
worked on any windows os.
You are trying to communicate with the javelin using its JIDE port
via Terminal.getChar() and System.out.print() statements.
The JIDE port uses 28800 baud and encodes any data, send or receive,
into a message. Only the javelin IDE and·my JideWinTerm program
have implemented this protocol, so these can do the
communication.
Here is the protocol:
What is the protocol used to send messages to and from the Sin and Sout pins?
Debug messages sent from the Javelin conform to the following pattern:
0x05 0x03 <messagedata> 0x7E
<messagedata> is the sequence of bytes being sent by the CPU.message() native method. It is byte-stuffed. This means that if <messagedata> contains a byte <b> that has the value 0x7F or 0x7E then that byte is replaced with 0x7F <b>^0x20. i.e. 0x7F followed by the orginal byte xored with 0x20.
Terminal characters are sent to the Javelin using the following algorithm:
After the Javelin is reset it send 0x0F followed a pause followed by 0x50 (the version of the Javelin firmware).
Running the following simple program:
public class HelloWorld { public static void main() { System.out.println("Hello World"); } }
will generate the following on Sout:
0F 50 05 03 48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 7E 05 03 0D 0A 7E 05 05 7E
Note that the sequence 0x05 0x05 0x7E indicates that the Java program has ended.
regards peter