Hi Myke Many people like me, that have worked in analogue world and that are updated to PICs to produce better devices, need to communicate in serial with PCs for sending controls to a PIC and receiving data in the PC. We need not only to know by curiosity how others do it, and to buy modules, but would like to learn ways to do simple things ourselves in the least expensive way. So we would like to learn with simple but useful working examples. As example in VB, ( if possible without requiring the expensive prof package...) choosing a A/D channel of the 877 , sending more control bits for an experiment, reading the 10 bit A/D, saving the values in a file excel compatible. After we can learn more when necessary. fernando -----Original Message----- From: Myke Predko To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Terga-feira, 5 de Outubro de 1999 14:33 Subject: Re: Second Edition of "Programming and Customizing the PICMicro" >Hi Brian, > >> >> >If you have any suggestions for the book, I am interested in hearing what >> >you have to say. I will not be publishing a proposed Table of Contents >> >simply because it is continually changing and probably won't be >"finalized" >> >for a couple of months. >> > >> >> How bout showing a user how to use VB to talk to the pic. Seems this >comes >> up enough! > >Already written. I have a section on the "MSCOMM" object in VB as well, I >will be showing an example application that uses a VB interface. > >> >I will be reordering quite a bit of the book to avoid problems where some >> >material is presented before the prerequisite material. >> >> Thank You!!!!!! I did think that for a beginner like myself, your book >was >> a little hard to follow. I did gleam a few things from the book though. >> It would be really nice if you would go over how basic computer >programming >> commands like loops can be done in pic code. > >I got that comment from a few people. I think you'll like the changes I >have made to how the instructions are explained. > > >myke >