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Unread 19-03-2004, 21:44
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Re: Dashboard

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Originally Posted by Kevin Karan
I was origionaly going to do it in binary mode, but I couldent find a doc about its input buffer, so I stuck to a string since I have always done that (it works ).
Now you know.
it's just that the MSCOMM control has to convert it to a string and you convert it back to bytes (in vb, an array of bytes and a string are not the same thing), plus there is a possibility that the letters are confused for the unicode versions. Wouldn't want that.
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Im not sure its nessesary to put each value into its own function, but it works.
It's easy (I think) for the developer, plus VB doesn't like strucs much. You could make variable public, but your not suposed to do that.
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The ifi icon works, but I would rather do somthing less... copywrited (j/k )
It seemed appropriate. I thought about overlaying the windows COM icon (the cable). didn't get to it.
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Why did you mess with the LED bytes?
Personal preference. I can add a sub to get a specific bit (it's as simple as "LED(1) And 2^Index").
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They worked fine as they were and now it will have to be parsed on the other end. Im not sure why you say the ex app doesnt work, it still does for me, but I did find a small bug when you open the port, but it doesnt realy matter.
Yeah, that was it. but it is a little important, like saying there's a small bug in kernal32.dll.