Vb CommEvent in Rev

Camm29 Camm29 at tesco.net
Sat Jan 7 14:23:25 EST 2006


Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
To: "Use Revolution List" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: Vb CommEvent in Rev


> On 1/4/06 1:49 PM, "Camm29" <Camm29 at tesco.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
> >
> > Is there an equivalaint to Visual Basic CommEvent in Rev ?
> >
> > Can i tell if  characters have arrived and ready to be Read from the Com
Port
> > Buffer ?
>
> Well, I haven't done much with this myself, but my understanding is that
you
> can open the COM port and read characters from it, and send characters to
> it... I don't know if there's a way to get an event when incoming data
comes
> in, but you can continually read from the port, even if it's empty.
>
> It's something like:
>
>  open driver "COM2:"
>  read from driver "COM2:" for 10 chars in 2 seconds
>
> Check the Transcript Dictionary for "open driver" and "read from
driver"...
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
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> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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