- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Delphi: Accessing Port Hardware and how to use InpOut32.dll This tutorial is intended to help you understand some software which simplifies attaching electronics, even homemade electronics, to your PC via the parallel port. (Or, with more work, the serial port.) You may also want to read. In particular, it helps you with using InpOut32.dll, an external resource which some kind people have made freely available, to save you reinventing certain wheels. You don't need prior experience with DLLs. If you just want a program to turn individual pins of your parallel port on or off, and don't want to fool around with writing your own, there's my. No sourcecode available, sorry.

TUTORIALS INDEX - - - - - - - - - - - - Other material for programmers Delphi: Accessing Port Hardware and how to use InpOut32.dll This tutorial is intended to help. Serial port enumeration in Delphi using Setup. I'm trying to enumerate. The ports may dynamically change as USB- serial devices are connected.

Works with XP. There's also the.exe within the, an application which is set up more or less as the application described in this tutorial.

That too lets you turn bits on and off, and the sourcecode is provided. Does InpOut32 still work? WEll it did in December 2009, anyway, on an XP machine.

Also, in March 09 I had a helpful email from another programmer saying it worked fine for him with Delphi 7 on a Windows XP (Professional, SP3) machine. Don't tell Mr.G about some goalposts he could move.

Elektricne Instalacije I Osvetljenja Pdf. Between Codegear's (to whom Borland sold Delphi) lack of interest in 'the little guy', and other things, I'm beginning to like Linux/ Netbeans more and more. And does it work well? The same person told me he'd used it with an Excel VBA app every day since Sept 08 without hassle. Thank you, and! Back in October 2003 they made life easier for anyone wanting to access their computer's parallel or serial ports. A single method that works for Win 9x, NT, 2000 and XP.

Without much messy overhead. Three brief asides: Aside 1: Most of the material on the web speaks of InpOut32 as being a way to access the parallel port. Working with the parallel port is relatively simple. InpOut32 should also allow you to access your serial port.

The reason I haven't tried to do it is that the serial port is a bigger pain to work with. InpOut32 lets you send and read bytes to/ from the addresses assigned to the parallel port.

Working with serial ports is done much the same way, so, if you care to master the chips you will be talking to, I see no reason why you shouldn't access them with InpOut32, too. Aside 2a: This isn't really the place for it, but I want to get SOME reference onto my site. While researching just now, I came across which may be of interest to the sort of person I suspect will have come the page you are reading. It sells educational electronics kits which connect your computer to the outside world though a USB port. There seems to be a tie in with Jan Axelson, who will be known to some readers as a long-standing friend of the 'do-it-yourself' electronics hobbyist. Do note the little bit of bad news (?) at the bottom of EID's page about USB product and vendor IDs.