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keith

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Serial Communications Issue
« on: October 05, 2009, 06:23:31 AM »
Hope somebody can help me with a little serial communication problem I?m having. I wrote a simple front end to a touchscreen application in Visual Basic 2008 for interface with T100MD. Works great but now I?m trying to send the T100MD a control code in the form of simple Ascii string through the PC?s com port, per the following:


SerialPort1.Open()
SerialPort1.WriteLine(TextBox1.Text)

No difficulty getting the data out to the device ? as verified with my terminal program. My problem is that in order to correctly impement the instructions, the 888 requires a carriage return as part of the host-link command terminator. I cannot find any T100MD setting or Visual Basic reference that will add the CR after the string and I know I?m not the first to run into this. Any help that could be given would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

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Re:Serial Communications Issue
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2009, 11:47:20 AM »
You may like to download the Visual Basic Express 2008 samples and see how the working code control the serial port:

http://www.tri-plc.com/applications/VBsample.htm#VB6sample

In fact you can simply add the sample object to your program which makes a very nice serial setup interface that is ready to go.
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Re:Serial Communications Issue
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2009, 03:28:47 PM »
In Vb did you tried constant keyword 'vbCr' or Chr$(13)? Im not sure in the TM but Chr(13) should work in the TM100MD.

check the ascii table here http://www.asciitable.com/ and tri the function CHR(decimal index from the table)

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Re:Serial Communications Issue
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 03:31:23 PM »
Sorry forgot sample

in VB:
Dim x As String
x = "Hello" & VbCr
or
x = "Hello" & Chr$(13)

In TM100:
A$ = "Hello" + Chr(13)

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Re:Serial Communications Issue
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 05:38:11 PM »
 ;D

Edgar was right on the money! Adding the vbCr makes host link commands simple to transmit and quite reliable. Thanks to you Edgar.