#VB SERIAL PORT DATARECEIVED EVENT UPDATE#

On MacOS with no new devices plugged in, the popup menu may list a few internal system devices.

#VB SERIAL PORT DATARECEIVED EVENT UPDATE#

If you get a syntax error, itвЂ™s likely to be the result of one or more names of the controls not matching those in the code so check them over carefully and update your control names to match the code. Click the Run button to run the project.If not, then a device has been added and it makes sense the user would want that device selected so the code selects the very last row of the DevicesPopupMenu. If thatвЂ™s the case, a device was removed so the code selects the first row (row 0) from the list of serial devices. Finally, it checks to see if the number of connected serial devices is less than the number of rows the DevicesPopupMenu previously had. In either case, it removes all the rows from the popup menu then loops through the connected serial devices, adding the name of each device connected to the popup menu. It then compares that to the number of connected serial devices and if they are not the same, it knows that either a new device has been connected or an existing device has been disconnected. This code first gets the count of the number of rows in the DevicesPopupMenu.Count < count Then // a device has been removedД®lse // one has been added so select the new deviceДevicesPopupMenu. The number of serial devices has changed so update the menuДЇor i As Integer = 0 To SerialDevice. In the Action event copy and paste the following code:.Double-click the DeviceListUpdater, select the Action event and click OK.This will cause the DeviceListUpdater to fire over and over again every half second. Set the DeviceListUpdaterвЂ™s Period property to 500.Set the TimerвЂ™s Name property to DeviceListUpdater.Drag a Timer control from the Library and drop it anywhere in the Layout Editor.Д«ecause a Timer control has no user interface, it appears in the tray at the bottom of the Layout Editor in what is called the Shelf.To do that, you will need a Timer control that will periodically update the DevicesPopupMenu control. When you plug in your device, youвЂ™ll want it to appear in this menu and disappear when you unplug it. Ideally, this Popup Menu will automatically update to show devices that have been added or removed.Drag a Popup Menu from the Library and set the Name property of the control DevicesPopupMenu.Drag a Label from the Library and title it 'Serial Devices:'.

The best thing to do is add a Popup Menu to your app that lists the serial devices so the user can choose one. Unfortunately, operating systems donвЂ™t provide an easy way for a typical end user to find out which devices are assigned which numbers. If you know the name the device uses, you can loop through all of the serial devices and look for the index that has the matching name. If you know the number, you can just hard-code it. Serial devices connected to a computer are identified numerically with 0 being the first device. Launch Xojo (if you havenвЂ™t already) and create a new Desktop project.You may not want to depend on that or you may be using a device that doesnвЂ™t pretend to be something else and you must communicate with it directly.

ThatвЂ™s fine for some purposes but it means the user must have the cursor in the field where they want the barcode value to appear. You scan a barcode and they convert that to a value then inserts the value into the keyboard buffer as if the user typed it. Many bar code scanners simply pretend to be a keyboard. This particular barcode scanner is popular and available from Amazon for about $100 new or less than $40 used. This tutorial uses a Motorola LS2208 barcode scanner but you can connect to and communicate with any serial device. What is important is that the device makes it clear that itвЂ™s a serial device. There are some devices that combine these two so you donвЂ™t need the adapter. This allows your serial device to connect to your computer through USB. That means it has a connector like this:Д¬omputers no longer have RS-232 ports so youвЂ™ll also need an RS-232 to USB adapter like this: For this tutorial, the serial device must be an RS-232 device. It makes sense to first start with the serial device.

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