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Joe,

I think your question is not so OT, Visual Basic is very nice for making a
user interface - we use it for control systems and remote data logging -
despite the fact you sometimes have to use rather a lots of tricks in order
to have it work correctly.

Well, you cannot read the comm buffer immediately on a comm event, it
doesn't work (why perhaps Bill Gates can explain you, although I have my
doubts). The trick is starting a timer on the comm event or when the
inbuffer count is greater than 0, and do the reading of the buffer contents
when the timer fires.

I've attached a small program (VB3 code) for communication with a Panasonic
PBX system, there you can find a way to do it..... The sample program
monitors InBufferCount, you can also start the timer in the On_Comm event as
another way to have things work.

Regards,

Albert Smulders
InSAD - Encarnaci—n, Paraguay
insad@itacom.com.py

-----Mensaje original-----
De: The Plumber <jhoffman@IT.SAIT.AB.CA>
Para: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Fecha: Viernes 30 de Octubre de 1998 17:04
Asunto: VB serial


>Sorry for being a bit off topic,
>
>I am trying to communicate to a Visual Basic application using a pic, at
>first I thought it was my code (pic), but then when I tried to use a
>terminal program on another computer it didn't accept the input either.
>The cable should be fine, because I can communicate between two computers,
>in dos using a terminal program.  Can anyone help me with this, any
>example code, I am trying to use the mscomm control to make my life simple
>but I must be missing something simple with the On_comm() event.
>
>BTW, I can send easily with the mscomm control.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe Hoffmann
>E-Mail jhoffman@it.sait.ab.ca

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