[Reply] HI Simon,
And if you are using laptop or other device limited with comm ports, you can get USB -> Comport adapters cheaper than you can develop such an app. kr gary At 14:31 on 24/07/2008 you wrote >To : [email protected] >CC : >From: Neven MacEwan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content Type: text/plain >Attached: > >Simon > >Why not use 3 comm ports? might be simpler than hooking the other comm >(esp >since you >don't know how the other software works) > >N > >> I have an interesting request ... I write a lot of GPS based apps, and am >> quite familiar with reading data from via a COM port from the GPS. A client >> needs that GPS position offset - rather than exactly where the GPS is, he >> needs it to read (e.g.) at right angles to the direction of travel and a >> certain distance away ... so he can drive past Telecom poles, and click a >> button, but record the position of the pole on the berm, not the truck on >> the road. >> >> That's fine if it's internal to my app, as I can do the math, but he has >> another app which is a black box and hooks into a camera system, and I have >> no access to this software. >> >> What I want to do is write a little app that reads the GPS COM Port, does >> the offset, and then "streams the offset data out to another COM Port" ... >> and the camera box can then read this COM Port. >> >> Is this even possible ? To write an app that streams data to a COM Port so >> that another application on the same computer can read it ? It's a bit of an >> odd one, and I don't know where to start looking ... >> >> Simon Garton >> GIS/IT Consultant >> email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> mob : +64 21 227 4666 >> lat/long : 36º53'17" S, 174º46'50" E >> www : http://www.simongarton.co.nz >> http://www.treecapture.co.nz >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >Post: [email protected] >Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe > Ref#: 41006
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