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Accessing parallel port
« on: October 11, 2011, 08:07:35 PM »
i'm trying to find a way to make a program to allow me to reach the parallel port through a program.
i've see nscripts out there but part of what i'm wanting to do is connect to sites or other stuff.

ANYWAYS i can figure out the going out to stuff, i just havent seen anything diggin through JDE and visual basic to find a way to output anything to a parallel port from software.
i would prefer to use java and or visual basic to reach the port.
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2011, 06:18:01 AM »
Can't help you with parallel port, but if you want to use a serial port instead I have done that in Visual Basic.
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2011, 06:37:14 AM »
>.< i've seen it done with older versions of VB so...unless they took out the functionality i just cant damn find it
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2011, 07:32:31 AM »
From the couple minutes of research I did, it appears that it will be hard to interface with a parallel port in .Net.  What are you trying to access over the parallel port?
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2011, 10:35:45 AM »
well, for a practice/ get it up and running/ see how to make it work thing i've got a couple 7 segment displays driven by BCD inputs and i was gonna make a simple program to show the current CPU usage/unread mail/ram usage or something like that through those displays. i've got the displays all wired up (yay digital class) and they work right when i manually put in a binary number to them, but i need to make the parallel port put the voltage out. it doesnt have to be .net java or another simple language would be fine, i just want to find some way to interface with it. (i'll probably mess around with serial later, but parallel for starters)
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2011, 11:41:42 AM »
Unfortunatley .net is all I have worked with, so I can't help you. If you need help with serial when you get to that point, let me know.
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2011, 10:32:40 AM »
something useful

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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2011, 12:10:51 PM »
lol wtf chef, what im seeing is that it looks like i cannot access the parallel port easily. im also asking on some other more programming related forums
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Re: Accessing parallel port
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2011, 10:54:22 AM »
well u said say something useful
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