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Hi ftbrady, I'm reviving my quest to get a serial port working on a Win7 machine using QB64. I will try as you had suggested earlier to check on the MSDN forums and see if I can get any traction there. Thanks for your help. I was reading back some of my messages and realize in the perspective of hin...

ftbrady, Well, if your code works on VBa, I am interested, but not VB.net. I am trying (very hard) to avoid installing any IDEs that I have to install myself, or have to learn anew. That's why I am sticking to QB64, and I am also going to try VBa since it comes installed with excell and I have a lit...

p.s. No worries about hijacking my thread. We're working towards the same goal more or less. I really don't think my problem is with inpout32.dll, nor its installation, but rather my implementation of windows.... Wait a minute. Tell me more about the serial port you are using. Is it on USB? The big ...

Thanks ftbrady,

What are you using to communicate with the serial port? I presume you are using the inpout32.dll, but what language?

Dan

Thanks Phil, Yeah, it's a weird problem. I think your drivers are installed fine. The .sys and .dll are in the right places. And it works, but of course, only with that third party app running. If I have time, I'll try to find a 4th party app. and see if it too works. But an interesting thing happen...

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the reply. Are you saying I should include inpoutx64.dll instead of inpout32.dll in my QB64 code?

Under Win 7, I see that QB64 runs as a 32 bit app, so installed the input32.dll. Should I use the x64 version instead?

Dan

Hi Phil, First of all THANK YOU for this incredibly useful update to InpOut32. I am attempting to use QB64 (v 1.00) on a Window 7 machine with an on-board COM port (i.e. hardware port, not a USB adapter) to talk to a voltmeter via serial port. I am having trouble opening the port. I have installed t...