How to display hyper terminal in cvi ?

[vince.werth]

Hello

I start with CVI (v6.0) and i would like to know how i must do to open the hyperterminal in a window cvi.

thank's you per advance for your help 

Regards

W.V

Message Edité par vince.werth le 05-15-2006 06:29 AM

[Ray.R]

Hi Vince,

I'm not quite sure I understand what you wish to accomplish.

However, if you simply want to open Hyperterminal, then you could use a command like:

system("c:\\Program Files\\Windows NT\\hypertrm.exe");

You can create a Hyperterminal "look-alike" by using the serial communication commands available in CVI and create your own front panel.  I think there is an example for this available.  Is this what you are trying to achieve, or do you actually want to see HyperTerminal within a CVI window (panel)?

JLV

[vince.werth]

Thanks for your response.

I want indeed to see the hyper terminal within a windows cvi panel.

I know how i must do to open hyperterminal but i don't know how to do to open this one in a cvi panel.

regards

W.V

[rjohnson]

i do a lot of serial and modem work, and I really hate HyperTerminal...   I find that its very easy to just define the functionality I want in CVI and display the I/O in a text box.   And it's much cleaner than trying to pipe HyperTerm through CVI.

But i guess your question is really how to embed any application in a CVI panel.

that I don't know, but am also interested to find out.

(ps:  you might want to check out TeraTerm...  its freeware, and IMO much better than HyperTerm)

[Ray.R]

I agree,

It would be better and probably easier (?) to simply implement serial communication functions in CVI.

And TeraTerm is much better than HT.

JLV

[vince.werth]

rjonhson says " [..]But i guess your question is really how to embed any application in a CVI panel.

that I don't know, but am also interested to find out.

(ps:  you might want to check out TeraTerm...  its freeware, and IMO much better than HyperTerm)"

Thanks for the information i will try Tera Term as soon as i will have time.

Indeed it is not just the HT that i want embed in a CVI Panel.

I begin with the HT but in the future i would like to try to embed any application (like video or flash animation).

Thanks for your help.

[msaxon]

The short answer is that you can't embed just any application within another application, the Windows architecture doesn't provide that facility. However, if an application is designed to be embedded in another application, then generally speaking you can embed it in a CVI app. Typically, applications designed that way expose an ActiveX control interface to enable this: obvious examples are the Microsoft Office applications, and almost any application that is assocated with web browsing. So Internet Explorer, Media player, Real Player, and Flash players can all be embedded.

As you've found out, Hyperterminal can't. There are third-party ActiveX controls that are embeddable and provide equivalent facilities (in some sense) to Hyperterminal, so if you really need that sort of tight integration I'd suggest you investigate them.