Re: Parallel port and Visual Basic?

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.
>

Run PowerBasic under DOS. No problems!

John

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