Parallel Port Working!
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| Thanks to everyone for their help (especially soja). I finally got the PIO card to operate for input and output operations. WinIo was not the winner, it was PortIo. I never could figure out moving the data from the PIO board or to the PIO board with WinIo, but with PortIo it was easy After I figured out how to set up dlportio.sys. The steps are: 1. Find dlportio.sys on the net (I used Google), 2. Locate NTPORT, 3. Unzip then setup NTPORT, 4. Follow the instructions (If I can do it anyone can!), 5. Here is the .decls file to put into userlibs: .lib "dlportio.dll" DPortReadPortUchar%( port% ) DPortReadPortUshort%( port% ) DPortReadPortUlong%( port% ) DlPortReadPortBufferUchar( port%, buffer*, count% ) DlPortReadPortBufferUshort( port%, buffer*, count% ) DlPortReadPortBufferUlong( port%, buffer*, count% ) DlPortWritePortUchar( port%, value% ) DlPortWritePortUshort( port%, value% ) DlPortWritePortUlong( port%, value% ) DlPortWritePortBufferUchar( port%, buffer*, count% ) DlPortWritePortBufferUshort( port%, buffer*, count% ) DlPortWritePortBufferUlong( port%, buffer*, count% ) 6. Place dlportio.dll in userlibs, 7. Here is the file for parallel_in.bb: ;Direct Port access from Blitz Basic: the input port. Include "DIOLib.bb" Graphics 800,600,16,2 SetBuffer BackBuffer() ;Set the direction bit of the device control register, ;make the port read. Repeat ;Read from data register Print DLPortReadPortUchar($379) Until KeyDown(1) End 8. Here is the file for parallel_out.bb: ;Direct Port access from Blitz Basic: the output port Include "DIOLib.bb" ;Set the direction bit of the device control register, ;make the port write -- change the hex data value to :change the output value. DlPortWritePortUchar($378, $20) End Now that I have these very simple programs, I can do whatever I care to do! Thanks again for all the help, DES |
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| cool mfg panno |
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| OOPS! The first 3 postings under .lib "dlportio.dll" should be DlPortRead I made a mistake and got the "L" out of there! Ha, Ha!. None |
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