Re: Serial communication

[John]

On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 03:51 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:

I want to receive information coming in via a serial connection and capture for processing in Rev. When I use a terminal application (ZTerm) the info comes across as plain text so it looks

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Bill,

I asked a similar question on the list quite some time ago and did not receive a reply. In my case the only application I currently need to write requires the serial port. From what I can gather the only platform with serial port support is Windows. Macs have not had a "printer" port in a very long time and the "modem" port is taken by the modem. Despite this I could not pass up the HyperCard cross grade offer and took the plunge. If you need access to serial ports and are looking for a nice development environment you might try RealBasic. I have used it extensively for control applications that use the serial port (pretty much all I do when it come to programming). It works very well, has a nice development environment, and good documentation including third party books. I really wish serial port support was added for both the Mac and Linux. I would like to try RR for something serious (I am just playing now).

Good luck,
John Miskimins