Re: Parallel port and Visual Basic?
- From: shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net (Si Ballenger)
- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:47:28 GMT
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:36:12 GMT, "Zucker" <zuckuss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>I am in the process of building a circuit that will monitor the start and
>finish times for pine box derby cars. I would like to be able to catch these
>events by feeding signals, through the parallel port, to a Visual Basic
>program. I was thinking of using the eight data pins from the parallel port
>to monitor eight lanes.
>
>The electronics are good to go. My problem is with Visual Basic.
>
>Does anyone know how to access and capture bit patterns from the parallel
>port using Visual Basic?
>
>Steve
>
>PS...I have asked this same question in several programming newsgroups, but
>I have not recieved any responses.
You may want to get the lpt-vb.zip file from the below site. It
has some vb source code for the parallel port. If you are using
NT/2K/XP, you may also need an application called userport
(google for userport.zip) to get direct hardware access to the
parallel port.
http://neil.fraser.name/software/lpt/
.
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