Ah, yes. I see that now. I read that several times, but missed that line. But technically, it says On the Windows platform "COM:" maps to "COM1:" There is nothing there about COM0, and when we construct the string to feed to the OPEN COM function, i.e. "COMn: [ baudrate ][ ,...

Hi all, I am running FB 1-06.0 on a Windows 7 OS. The code below seems to work, and returns with a return code of 0 (no errors). This should NOT BE as COM 0 simply doesn't exist on Windows. Is this an accidental holdover from Linux? If I un-comment the second "OPEN" in the code below, the ...

Thanks MrSwiss, I will proceed more carefully with the Highrez drivers (which I know worked for me at one time) and report what error messages I get. But that will take time as I will need to be methodical. Agreed about COM. I started on this path because QB64 did NOT work properly when opening the ...

Hi MrSwiss, Thanks for the reply. What you said is sort of what I expected. Perhaps that point about the INP and OUT only working in DOS should be made more clear. The help file text does not refer to any specific OS. As for the majority of the posts relating to this topic, it is not at all clear wh...

Hi Folks, I've been following this thread, trying to reproduce some of the results, and have not succeeded at getting INP or OUT (or INP32 or OUT32) to work. Can someone familiar with the code, both native to FB and the external libraries write up a concise summary of what works and what doesn't? I ...

Hello Thomas, I will give it a try. I guess I am a bit hesitant to use such an old file for fear that I may spend a lot of time trying to get it to work, and then find I need the newer one. But I see now that the file still supports the chips I expect to use - the FTDI product line must be relativel...

Hi All, And hi in particular to users fdrn, oceano and tjf, who have worked on this before, judging from previous posts on the subject. I hope some of you guys are still active here. I would like to write some Freebasic code that calls on the latest FTDI FTD2xx.dll. I've poked around a bit and found...

Thanks for the response counting_pine. Yeah, I'd say it's a "bug" now, as it works fine in actual QB45. Should I report it as one and what's the best way to do that? How hard is it to fix these sorts of bugs without breaking something else in the code? I'm wondering if I should take a look...

p.s. An additional confirmation. The code I included in my example performs as expected in both QB45 on a 32 bit Win XP system, AND on QB64 running on Windows 7. In both cases, ALL of the windows appear with a box completely around them. The last example still moves the origin of the box... I have t...

Howdy folks, This is my first post in this forum (I think), though I have been quietly using Freebasic for some time now. Quietly, because it works very well. But I have run into a problem I don't understand, and I am asking for help. I have used the VIEW command to set aside a portion of my screen ...