USB is not a COMM port. Completely different. Just because it has "serial" in the name doesn't mean it has anything to do with RS232 serial communications.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Robert Blakely <[email protected]> wrote: > No doubt you are right, but, worst comes to worst, if it can act just like a > comm port, I can transfer and/or control ANYTHING - and I have with comm > ports. It's all about how MY software at both ends, interprets it. Comm port > drivers are already available. Now it doesn't have to be a comm. port driver > that's used. Hell, if we can transfer bitmaps that'll work too. A TColor > object is just another word for an __int32 word. If I control the meaning of > both sides of the interface, i.e. the camera & the camera operating > software, the bits in that TColor pixel mean whatever I damn well want them > to mean. > > I'd send you some examples, but what I have was written to control test > equipment for cellular site technical evaluations. Point is, I didn't write > drivers. I simply used drivers that were already available for purposes > other than for what they were intended. The transport equipment & software > (including drivers) didn't care what data was being transmitted. > > Bob... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > I don't mind if you don't like my manners. > I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. > I grieve over them on long winter evenings. > -- Humphrey Bogart, "The Big Sleep" > > -----Original Message----- > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:52 PM > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Robert Blakely <[email protected]> wrote: >> Data is data & packets is packets. The writer gets to determine what's in >> the packets & how to use that information. > > That's my nomination for the "just about pure nonsense" quotation of > the day on PDML. > Remind me not to hire you to develop a USB driver. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
