Guest PSRumbagh Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I have a Compaq Presario V2000 running Windows XP home SP2 that has two USB 2.0 ports and no built in serial (RS232) or parallel (IEEE 1284) ports. I have a Radio Shack model 26-183 USB to RS232 serial adapter cable and a LPT-PCM PCMCIA CardBus to parallel IEEE 1284 that supports SPP/ECP/EPP modes. I am running Quick Basic V4.5 in conjunction with TameDos on Windows XP. Will Quick Basic V4.5 allow me to access these two adapters from inside a ..BAS program while in the Windows XP environment? If not, can I do this using Visual Basic Express 2005, which I have yet to learn? Also, is it possible to access the USB ports in Quick Basic and / or Visual Basic Express?
Guest C.Joseph Drayton Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Windows XP home, Quick Basic V4.5 and port(s) access PSRumbagh wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario V2000 running Windows XP home SP2 that has two USB > 2.0 ports and no built in serial (RS232) or parallel (IEEE 1284) ports. I > have a Radio Shack model 26-183 USB to RS232 serial adapter cable and a > LPT-PCM PCMCIA CardBus to parallel IEEE 1284 that supports SPP/ECP/EPP modes. > I am running Quick Basic V4.5 in conjunction with TameDos on Windows XP. > Will Quick Basic V4.5 allow me to access these two adapters from inside a > .BAS program while in the Windows XP environment? If not, can I do this > using Visual Basic Express 2005, which I have yet to learn? Also, is it > possible to access the USB ports in Quick Basic and / or Visual Basic Express? The PCMCIA > Parallel will work the USB > Serial probably won't (especially if you are trying to hook to a device that needs to speak to the port directly). Ciao . . . C.Joseph "A promise is nothing more than an attempt, to respond to an unreasonable request."
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