Can OPAL access information from a serial port. Anyone doing this? I have several pieces of lab equipment that I want to have the data go straight into a form and the database for reporting.
This is regular ASCII output at 8N1 8,600 through an RS232 cable.
Will it automatically parse the data steam for different fields?
> Can OPAL access information from a serial port. Anyone doing this? I have > several pieces of lab equipment that I want to have the data go straight > into a form and the database for reporting.
> This is regular ASCII output at 8N1 8,600 through an RS232 cable.
> Will it automatically parse the data steam for different fields?
How much control do you need? I'm using the Sax comm ActiveX OCX control to talk to a couple of machines, scales, barode scanners, etc. It's working really well and gives you pretty much complete control of the serial port. You can set it up to fire an event whenever data comes in the serial port or several other configurations, then you read a property to get the data. You'll have to parse it yourself, though.
> Can OPAL access information from a serial port. Anyone doing this? I > have several pieces of lab equipment that I want to have the data go > straight into a form and the database for reporting.
> This is regular ASCII output at 8N1 8,600 through an RS232 cable.
> Will it automatically parse the data steam for different fields?
> Please search the groups on serial port. There have been > numerous discussions on the issue, at least one of which includes > a library to download...
> > Can OPAL access information from a serial port. Anyone doing this? I have > > several pieces of lab equipment that I want to have the data go straight > > into a form and the database for reporting.
> > This is regular ASCII output at 8N1 8,600 through an RS232 cable.
> > Will it automatically parse the data steam for different fields?
> Please search the groups on serial port. There have been > numerous discussions on the issue, at least one of which includes > a library to download...
> > Can OPAL access information from a serial port. Anyone doing this? I have > > several pieces of lab equipment that I want to have the data go straight > > into a form and the database for reporting.
> > This is regular ASCII output at 8N1 8,600 through an RS232 cable.
> > Will it automatically parse the data steam for different fields?
Subject: Accessing Serial Port Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:35:06 -0400 From: gabriel <gabri...@usa.com> Newsgroups: corel.wpoffice.paradox-dev
Subject: Accessing Serial Port with Paradox Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:37:46 -0400 From: gabriel <gabri...@supernet.com.bo> Newsgroups: corel.wpoffice.paradox8
Neil Thomas of D. Lawton Assoc. has some experience with this. He is a Paradox fan and may be willing to communicate briefly on serial port access. Ask him about his presentation last year titled 'Bringing Paradox Out of Its Shell'.
> Can OPAL access information from a serial port. Anyone doing this? I have > several pieces of lab equipment that I want to have the data go straight > into a form and the database for reporting.
> This is regular ASCII output at 8N1 8,600 through an RS232 cable.
> Will it automatically parse the data steam for different fields?
I download the groups in Netscape to my hard drive. I simply did a search for messages with "serial port" or "com port" in the message body. Since you don't have the groups on your hard drive (probably <g>), if you didn't try google.com, I suggest you go to their advanced groups search page and use that (put *paradox* in the Newsgroup field and your criteria in the proper field above).
