calling com port under win7 with old 261 built app

[Jeff Reynolds]

Mark,

I owe you a beer! it was the firewall! running fine now.

was frustrating as the new win7 box i just bought just to do a little  
other win7 testing has no serial port! was going to have to add a card  
to start trying to test it or worse yet have to do a service call..,  
but all fixed now!

the same old 2.6.1 app is running fine talking to the amx controller  
fine now and running the interactive auditorium shows at the monterey  
bay aquarium on the new win7 boxes.

thanks for the help!

cheers

jeff

PS the aquarium recently retired an old first gen HD video server  
there (old suped up pc box with extra dp cards and drive array) that  
still had running an old meta card app from 1999 that just sat there  
all day long passing serial commands from the serial port and  
translating them into shell commands! fixed a huge problem with about  
a dozen lines of mc code in like 10 minutes that had the video server  
installer guys stumped! goes to show the power of mc/rev!


On Sep 21, 2010, at 5:06 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Jeff-
>
> Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 1:23:13 PM, you wrote:
>
>> on my app to com 1 (i had that built in there). does win 7 do
>> something different that an older rev would not do to call the serial
>> port? do i need to rebuild the app in a later version of rev to  
>> create
>> a win7 app that will call the com port on win7?
>
> Hmmm... overzealous antivirus software? Do you need admin rights to
> access the serial ports in Win 7?
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder