Re: Spread*** as realtime viewer?

David L. Jones wrote:

On May 31, 11:01 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello Folks,

We want to create charts from data that comes streaming in in batches
over USB. My old DOS version of MS-Works could do that. I could pipe
data in via RS232 and its built-in terminal function and set it up so it
displays it as a graph. Worked very nicely with logic analyzer data and
stuff like that.

In newer MS-Works and Excel versions I could not find that feature. Did
it vanish?


It is still there and is called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications or
something)
Essentially the same as regular Visual Basic, but it has lots of nice
tie-in's with the spread***, so it's easy to read data from an RS232
port and dump it into whatever cells you want etc.


Thanks, I'll have to talk to the SW guy about it. I am not a programmer and the old Works didn't require a programming language. It just worked ;-)

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Regards, Joerg

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