Steve (2) We made an own small interface software for external displays (2 lines, 20 characters each) of POS-systems using Delphi to control the outputs. It configured for 9600 baud. If you are interested in it, you could send me a private email.
(3) I forwarded your inquiry to a developer who does manage sport events for a big sports club including time measurement using RBase. Perhaps he is interested to share his experience and knowledge with you. But I could not promise. Best Regards Adrian Hüssy Huessy Engineering GmbH Stadtturmstr. 13, CH-5401 Baden Tel. +41 56 210 9171, Fax +41 56 210 9175, http://www.huessy.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Wills, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Blue-Sky Thinking About an App' I'd Like to Try > > Y'all, in the fall, I am a volunteer/parent coach of the middle school > cross country team - I Love XC - at my kids' school. I would like to > create an app' to: > (1) Manage Meet Results > (2) Interface (in some fashion) a Timer Display to the system > (3) Use some sort of button-pressin' thing to log runners crossing the > finish line > (Given) Standard A/C power is assumed to be available, even if it's by > generator or auto inverter. Yes, battery power would be the greatest, > but even if it's with a laptop or PDA/WinCE type device, a > proper-sized/arrayed timer display will probably require a fair amount > of electricity for any sustained operations. > > Now, I have already done some work on (1) and that's not such a big > deal. Razzak might now be saying, "Aha! I knew there was a reason he > was asking so many questions about Form Timer functionality a while > back." He would be correct. > > However, (2) and (3) are related, at least in the sense that we are > talking about external hardware devices, one of which, the Timer > Display, is an output device and the other, the "button-pressin' thing", > is an input device. > > So, with regard to: > (1) I would like to ask if any of y'all have ever done anything with > sending strings/data via RS232/USB/Ethernet to an external display, > especially an array of 7-segment LED's or a scrolling LED board from > within RBase? I would like to pass the time in some fashion and/or the > position of the most recent finisher, perhaps freezing their time until > the next runner. Now, I'm doing a lot of info' gathering on > bashing/hacking my own clock - "professional" sports displays are quite > expensive, at least if they're any good -so I'm not asking anyone about > how to design/build the clock, just how to send data to such an output > device from Rbase. > (2) Has anyone ever used some sort of button which, on > keypress/depression, serves as an input, again, via RS232/USB/Ethernet > to RBase? This would be logically equivalent to [Left-Click] or > [Enter], to log an event, such as recording a runner crossing the line. > Again, I have found various information/sources on WWW that discuss the > construction and communications of such an input device with > microcontrollers and/or PC's, but I really need to learn how to make > sure that RBase "hears" such input. > > I appreciate any help here and if nobody's ever done any of this, that's > cool. But I'm committed to makin' this mission, even if it I can't > timebox the project. > > > Thanks, > Steve in Memphis > > > > J. Stephen Wills > Program Manager, Research Informatics > Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research > University of Tennessee Health Science Center > 62 S. Dunlap, Suite 400 > Memphis, TN 38163 > Office: 901-448-2389 > FAX : 901-448-7133
