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AcidMods Resources ----- ( These are helpful tools for modding ) => Open Source Code & AcidMods Free Code => Topic started by: Kool1zero on October 11, 2011, 08:07:35 PM
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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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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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>.< 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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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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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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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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something useful
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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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well u said say something useful