On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Gregory Omond wrote: > Hi > Just hoping that someone can help me with regard to sending non string > data > via the serial port in realbasic. > > I am attempting to write an app to log ear tag information on my farm. > > Thanks > > Greg Omond. > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > > I do it all the time. Make sure that you have 8 data bits. Read the port as if it really is text.
Then "parse" the data, converting from "text" characters into non-text data. What the source of the data? A tag reader? What does the reader documentation say about the data format? Jim Wagner _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
