Note: I'm building my interface in OOO Base. Your use of the components is up to your tolerance level. I'm going to provide links to cost-free software, but they aren't GPL. While I know this is a VERY old topic, it is one that came up on searches for serial port interfaces, and there isn't a good answer. It was his pointing out the kB article which gave me the idea, so the honours really belong to ms777 The truth is that I've come back to this "No responses" Q a couple of times and couldn't think of an easy solution. WinXP et al) specific.Īnd an apology to ms777 for seeming to jump on his/her suggestion. Also read section 3 of the SDK which tells you how to call com components, but once you've done that using a COM component is really quite straight forward but unfortunately MS OS (e.g. One of the early hits was which seems to do what you want. However, since you can use COM controls through the UNO bridge, this got me thinking about simpler non-MS approaches and did a google on "com port vbscript" (since the programmatic approach is the same as writing a vbscript, but I'll get far more hits on vbscript than OOo Basic!). Net controls which should be accessible through the UNO bridge, and these will require you to download the relevant. There is a potential issue over legality / licensing. Do a google on "mscomm32.ocx download" for more information and avaialbility. The first uses the MSComm Control (MSCOMM32.OCX). If you read this article, it basically discusses two approaches.
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