The Prolific chipset works fine in Delphi using a freeware serial component.
73, Mike NF4L On 1/5/2011 3:25 PM, Julian, G4ILO wrote: > > John Ragle wrote: >> The K3.XML file available from the FLDIGI site works completely, >> reliably, and correctly inside FLDIGI (with the K3 in RigCAT and WIN XP >> or WIN 7). I would be glad to supply settings if requested (however, >> that is not what the gentleman asked for). FLDIGI does not "require" >> HAMLIB for rig support. >> > The problem does exist and affects Fldigi (both RigCAT and HamLib options), > KComm and any software that uses Hamlib as an interface to the radio. It > only affects Prolific USB to serial adapters. FTDI adapters and real serial > ports are OK as far as I know. > > I am only an amateur programmer so others may know better but I believe that > the Prolific adapters only work reliably with software that uses the > MSCOMM.OCX component for serial port access. This basically means programs > written using Microsoft development tools. > > The programs mentioned above are open source software developed using open > source tools which use open source libraries for serial port access. Open > source development tools do not support OCX components because they are > Windows specific so ham software developers who use these tools cannot use > this component to solve the problem. Nor can they fix the problem themselves > because they don't actually write the serial port code. All they can do is > complain to the developers of the serial port libraries who reply "it works > fine with a real serial port so there is nothing wrong with our code, it is > the Prolific adapter serial port emulation that is at fault." Which, while > not being the helpful response you might expect from the developer of a > component if you had paid good money for it, is nevertheless true. > > ----- > Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. > * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com > * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html > * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
