ActiveX Container and serial control

[Veldmous]

Hi,

I'm looking for the serial control in the create control list at the
ActiveX Container. So i can control a Bluetooth stick. Where can i find
this activex control and how can i install it.
I hope somebody knows what i mean, thnx

Gr Veldmous

[sarahk]

Hi, Veldmous.

It sounds like you'd like to be able to install a control to be used in an ActiveX container. Although extra controls will appear in that list once they're registered in your system, I'm not aware of some sort of generic serial control that can be installed.

However, there's a whole series of Bluetooth-related VIs that will probably be much easier to use than controlling your devices through ActiveX. For an example using these VIs, check out the Example Finder. (Help>>Find Examples, then select Networking>>Bluetooth.)

Good luck! Let me know if you have any more questions.

[Odd_Modem]

Microsoft Communications Control is the serial port activex control. This has a dual license so you have to have VB or Vc++ installed in order to develop. When you load the FP container correctly there will be a little telephone in it. VISA serial drivers have all the power of the MSCOMM control so you might want to use those instead.

[Khalid]

Veldmous,

.NET 2.0 framework has a Serial Port class.  This can be another option if you have this framework.  See this for some details:

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?showtopic=2364

Again, VISA may be the easiest option though. 

-Khalid

[Veldmous]

Hi,

Thanks for the help. Today I received an .dll and I registered it in
the system32 directory. It works in LabVIEW 🙂

Gr Veldmous

[Sfreitag]

Well,

can you tell me your solution? Is this dll freeware? I am trying to implement a "slim" serial logging tool and I dont want to use VISA.

Thank you in advance.