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[BrilloPad]

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[NickFitz]

evening all

Hi Scourer

There's a few techy-ish posts up there for you

[zeitghost]

Have you thought about caching the data as it arrives, whilst also drawing it line by line, then when it's time to save, create a new bitmap thingy, draw to that using the cached data, and save that?

Or have you already tried that?

Max string length is 64k.

I'd need an array of strings or something.

Doing this stuff with VB is like programming with one hand tied behind your back.

It's taken until now to find out how to declare something in hex... and I only found that out by looking in the constants file.

[zeitghost]

evening all

[BrilloPad]

Hi Scourer

There's a few techy-ish posts up there for you

in tpd or in technical?

[BrilloPad]

[NickFitz]

Max string length is 64k.

I'd need an array of strings or something.

Doing this stuff with VB is like programming with one hand tied behind your back.

It's taken until now to find out how to declare something in hex... and I only found that out by looking in the constants file.

Can you do anything treating the incoming data as binary? Rooting around in my memory of COM, I've got vague memories of doing something with the ADODB.Stream object...

[NickFitz]

in tpd or in technical?

TPD

kali's got a datasheet for an 8250 Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter chip

[zeitghost]

Can you do anything treating the incoming data as binary? Rooting around in my memory of COM, I've got vague memories of doing something with the ADODB.Stream object...

I dunno.

I haven't reached that chapter in Larn thysen VB3 in 24 hours...

In VB3, string is about as binary as it appears to get.

And the MSCOMM thingie is treating some character or other as EOF... though all that does is generate an EOF event which I ignore, largely coz it's fick tish us

[zeitghost]

Actually, all this nonsense is of great use, coz a) it relieves my tedium and b) I'm larning sommat I didn't know before, useless as it may well be...

I suspect the next trick will be translating this so Borland C++ can compile the C version...