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Your a star! &nbsp;Thanks, presumably if I'm reading 'records' of 24 bytes, I can set it to 24 so that it grabs a 24 byte buffer for me. &nbsp;Thanks for the quick response.<br />
Simon.
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Your a star!  Thanks, presumably if I'm reading 'records' of 24 bytes, I can set it to 24 so that it grabs a 24 byte buffer for me.  Thanks for the quick response.
Simon.

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sbennetts<br />
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Indeed that is correct, it should then fire when you have a full 24 byte bunch of data.<br />
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Tim.
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sbennetts

Indeed that is correct, it should then fire when you have a full 24 byte bunch of data.

Tim.

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Hi<br />
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I'm working with a handheld device at present that has a serial connection to enable the download of information from the device to a PC. &nbsp;Having programmed the device to send the data that is collected, I'm not looking at the PC app to collect that data.<br />
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I have used HyperTerminal for a basic check to ensure some data is being passed from the device through the COM port to the PC and everything 'looks' ok there.<br />
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My problem is that when I try to use the MSCOMM control, for some reason as data is sent from the device, it doesn't seem to raise an onComm event and therefore I'm unable to effectively grab the data. &nbsp;If is have a loop just waiting for MSComm1.Input, I get some data back.<br />
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What am I doing wrong? &nbsp;Any ideas?<br />
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Regards<br />
Simon.
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Hi

I'm working with a handheld device at present that has a serial connection to enable the download of information from the device to a PC.  Having programmed the device to send the data that is collected, I'm not looking at the PC app to collect that data.

I have used HyperTerminal for a basic check to ensure some data is being passed from the device through the COM port to the PC and everything 'looks' ok there.

My problem is that when I try to use the MSCOMM control, for some reason as data is sent from the device, it doesn't seem to raise an onComm event and therefore I'm unable to effectively grab the data.  If is have a loop just waiting for MSComm1.Input, I get some data back.

What am I doing wrong?  Any ideas?

Regards
Simon.

Using the MSCOMM control with VB

Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.