How to get a serial port component for Delphi5

LUIS RODRIGUEZ LLADO

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Apr 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/14/00

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Hi!

I've just bought Delphi 5 poressional and it does not have a serial port
component.
Does anyone know how to get a serial port component for Delphi5 ?

Thank you very much in advance.

John Herbster

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Apr 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/15/00

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Look for Async32 in

http://www.torry.webnorth.com/comms.htm

It was not specifically for D5 but it works for me.

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LUIS RODRIGUEZ LLADO

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Apr 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/17/00

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John Herbster escribió:

Thanks, John. But I was looking for a guaranteed, not freeware, not
shareware component. I would be not worried if I had to buy it. Do you
know if Borland offers anyone ?

Thank you very much in advance again!

David Cornelius

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Apr 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/17/00

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The absolute best, most complete package out there for serial port
communications in Delphi is AsyncPro by TurboPower Software.

http://www.turbopower.com/products/APRO/

... little spendy, though @ $350.

--
David Cornelius, corne...@interactivenw.com
Software Engineer, WinSPM Group at INI
http://www.interactivenw.com/winspm

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Randy Blackmond

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Apr 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/17/00

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Async Professional from Turbo Power. http://www.turbopower.com

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Apr 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/22/00

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I saw a post where you prefer to stay away from shareware/freeware.
Well, I bought the commercial AsyncPro, and I found it unsuitable for
the way I prefer to code. So, I use a freeware package. I added C++
Builder support to it and gave it to the author. Here is the
announcement that I left here awhile ago:

Freeware serial port components, CPORT252.ZIP is available at:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopecrni/

The primary author is Dejan Crnila. I added the C++ Builder support
for it.

I happen to also own TurboPower's AsyncPro. Make no mistake, AsyncPro
is a far, far heftier package with many more features. In fact, I
have a recent project that uses AsyncPro's Pager components. CPort
doesn't have anything like that. CPort is primarily a basic port
send/receive characters component. It does have a port LED component
though.

The reason I got involved with CPort even though I own AysncPro is
that TurboPower's product has no basic "ReceiveChars" type of method.
They insist you sent up triggers and event. When doing
protocol-oriented work, this is far less readable and maintainable,
IMO of course.

In the Win16 API, it was very much required that you do event-oriented
programming. In the Win32 API, MS added the WaitCommEvent API call,
which allows for more procedural-oriented serial I/O code. But
TurboPower's components seem to now allow that kind of coding.
Frankly, I would have just rolled my own library if I didn't come
across CPort. But since I did, I like it and use it. So for me, I
consider both products useful. But I more often do protocol work, so
for me, CPort is the tool I use more often.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:13:19 +0200, LUIS RODRIGUEZ LLADO
<lrod...@bsab.com> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I've just bought Delphi 5 poressional and it does not have a serial port
>component.

>Does anyone know how to get a serial port component for Delphi5 ?
>

>Thank you very much in advance.