Hello people

I have a Digitizer that runs with a old Dos App.
Now I would use it under Windows and found out,
that the praised manufacturer will have a lot of money for the driver (75 euro). Therefore I want to program myself a pseudo driver (set cur position) (MSCOMCONTROL, VB6).

Now I stand before the problem:
--How do I initialize “the part”???

Does anyone interface a foreigh RS232 Hardware?
It is a * with 5 buttons.
Control over VB is not topic for me.


Thanks for reading my bad English.

Hi

I edited your post to remove the name of the digitizer manufacturer. It's a valid question though and might be interesting if anyone has any ideas on how to interface a digitizer in general.

You might start by checking this link, there is a lot of information on programming serial and parallel ports, including complete RS232 specifications, etc.

http://www.lvr.com/

Kayaker

tried installing dos in virtual machine and running this inside vm ?

if you are just interested in running it and nothing more

is it not an option thats usable ?

not sure I understand. You wish to build a custom MS-DOS Driver that replaces the one used by your software, you need to build a Windows Interface, ie in VB?
I remember well, VB does offer an RS232 common control that takes care of that (at least it offered it a life ago). What's the problem using it? It should work fine, as it's just a wrapper for windows dll.

it was not ages ago i as recently as a few months ago remember playing with a virtual serial port software and it turned out to be an ocx (activex)

and i was intrigued and remember googling and finding tons and tons of links that were vb vb vb rs232 tuts

so its still alive and kicking

his question didnt sound like he wanted to have anything related to coding or reversing it

anyway one samplelink
http://mc-computing.com/Languages/SerialIO.htm

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