Catching And Removing Escape Characters In A Serial Comm Port Program?
May 18, 2010
I have recently developed a serial port communication program to access my hardware firewall and its connected to the device via a converter usb to rs232head plugged to a rs232 to an ethernet cable. this ethernet cable then plugs into the device console port.
my program functions similar to that of TeraTerm. an opensource hyperterminal program written in C++ but i decided to do one for vb.net
Alright to cut the story short, i have successfully coded out the program to accept incomming data from the device but however, i'm also receiving ansi escape sequence along with it and i have no idea how i could implement codes to remove these. i have spend 3 weeks trying to look for vt100 emulation codes written in vb.net but i found none so far. most are written in c++. here's an image to illustrate the problem which im facing.
The image below is a screenshot taken when the i ran both the programs together. The bottom is tera term 3.1 and the top is my vb project which i made using msdn's example and improved on the codes. basically tera term was able to interpret those escape sequence and display accordingly to that of the vt100 terminal display. I have spent time reading on regular expressions using the inbuilt function regex in visual basic and tried parsing some strings but its not working. i guess its far more complex than i thought.
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Nov 27, 2011
I used microsoft com control 6.0 in the application for sending data to the led control
MSComm1.EOFEnable = True
MSComm1.SThreshold = 100
MSComm1.InputLen = 0
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Nov 10, 2009
I'm currently working on a project where I am transmitting data from a comm device via the serial port and resorting the raw data (in binary) to its respective ascii values. The problem I'm facing is determining the most efficient method to accomplish my goal. Essentially, I have 68 bytes coming in, the first and second bytes represent the page and packet number and the data itself ranges from 3 to 64, the remaining for my checksum.
What I am needing to do is, grab 50 consecutive bytes per variable in my array, and that is where I'm confused. I have easily pulled my 3-64 bytes and stored that data to a string. I just don't know the most efficient method to accomplish my goal. Should I write directly to file all my data, as there are like 8 pages, of 128 packet data. [Code] I can capture the the first 50 by using a for-loop easily, but what would be the preferred method to track what data chunk I've taken? The more I think about it, I think I may just want to write to file, all my data, and then just take them back to back in 50 byte chunks. Is that the most efficient method?
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Jun 10, 2010
I am developing an test application to read the data coming on serial port sent by the pabx. It is working fine. But, for some reason , i don't know why, some invalid characters are coming in the data, something like '?'
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Jul 18, 2009
I need to write an application for receiving data (ascii characters) from microcontroller through the serial port in three separate parts. I've created three RichTextBoxes, but I do not know which commands I need to type. In first textbox I need to receive one byte... next six bytes need to be placed in second text box, and finally last seven bytes need to be placed in third textbox.
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Oct 15, 2008
Im having problem with the Serial Port. When i run my program, "Access to the port 'COM1' is denied". What does that mean? Im not sure whats happening because theres no error in my code. Someone suggest me to use 'COM2'. Which is also the same result. I have a microcontroller, programmed and run it. And i need to capture the data onto my vb, which is on a multiline textbox. How to i do that?Just to double check my code?
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Aug 16, 2011
i am a absolute beginner and i want to use vb to receive data from micro controller through serial port using rs232 standards, i found this code to receive the data serially, can any one tell me where should i paste this code, so that the data received will be displayed in message box.Private Sub DataReceived(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) HandlesSerialPort1.DataReceived
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Oct 26, 2011
The link below has code to connect to a modem thru the serial port but it is for an earlier version of VB. when I convert the code, it does not fully convert and has 4 errors that prevent building the project. can someone tell me what needs to be changed or added?
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Note: the error: not CLS-Compliant
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Jan 27, 2010
Basically I need to send the hex command FA through a COM port.
I have added the com port and set the baud etc and all seems to be working well there. I am just a little unsure how to send the correct hexadecimal command. For example,
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
SerialPort1.Open()
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Sep 6, 2010
I am using Scanpal2 to read data and as per its documentation as follows
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Apr 29, 2011
Is it possible to create a logical serical port in vb that another application can open and read/write to?
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Nov 2, 2011
I currently have software that sends out plain text(i.e. 'X') to comm 1 port and was wondering if there was any way to capture that plain text and also respond to that port on the same compute as the port without having anything plugged into the machine (i.e. 9 pin serial cable). I am trying to avoid buy any more hardware as this is an objective to acutally cut down on hardware.
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Nov 20, 2011
I have very limited knowledge of any programming and am desperately trying to learn. I am attempting to use Visual Basic to create a simple program to operate our church's projector from the computer. I am able to control the projector using hyperterminal and accessing the serial port. I am wondering how I would code a button to send the correct signal to the correct port? I have a simple setup w/ my church logo in background with three buttons. There is an On, Off and Freeze button. I am simply needing to know how to program the buttons to access the serial ports. I hope I am being clear.
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Feb 15, 2009
I have a VB.Net 2008 app that I have converted from VB6 which reads data from a weight scale connected to a serial port. I am able to read the received data and display it on the screen, but when I go to Stop the reading and attempt to close the serial port, the app hangs.
Private Delegate Sub ShowWeight(ByVal tWeight As String)
Private Sub comScale_DataReceived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e
As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles
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Mar 16, 2009
i want to know how can grip messages come by serial port and create data base to this message ,,,i mean to drop this message to . record to store it and i can use in my program
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Feb 18, 2011
i have the following code which runs ok, but it hogs upto 95% of the CPU.program outline: a timer tick event = 1000ms scans through 30 readlines of data on the comport for a specific line of hex, and then extracts information from the next line and converts it to decimal for viewing on the screen.i've only included the main part of the code to try and keep it simple.
Public Class Form1
Private WithEvents serial As New IO.Ports.SerialPort
Public grab As String
Public cardIndex As Integer
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Dec 31, 2009
Now I know whats going to happen, I will post a request for code syntax and one of the admins is going to say that I need to post the code I already have. The code I already have is irrelevant to what i wish to do. So, continuing on; I have a micro controller that i wish to send commands to it in HEX data type. Communication is via the serial port RS232. (well technically its through the USB to serial converter)Steps:
1) Sending a "001" tells the micro controller to await instructions as to what to set the duty cycle to
2) The data that follows i.e." 050, 010, 185 " will be added to 400 (by the micro controller) to come up with a duty cycle based on a 10 bit resolution of 0-1024. I am only going to be using the range of 401- ~500.
I can communicate with the micro controller via hyper terminal. Using the Alt + #keys method I can transmit data to the micro controller, and this is what i with to do with vb.net.[code]
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Feb 22, 2007
I have an older VB6 application which uses a scanner on the COMM port and does the following... (I have been tasked with re-writing it in ASP.NET (VB)...
OLD APPLICATION...
1. reads a Scanner and loads the data onto the PC
2. FTP's the data file to a SQL Server (where a small app picks it up and processes it)
3. Deletes the data from the scanner[code]...
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May 3, 2006
I'm debugging a VB app where I'm using a comm port attached to a bluetooth radio paired to another bluetooth radio in order to communicate with a remote barcode scanner. The pair of bluetoooth devices basically work as a serial cable replacement. Sometimes it works fine, but after a while I get an UnauthorizedAccessException message which breaks the program (see attached jpeg).
I only get this when I use the radios and not when I use a direct cable. I wonder if it has something to do with other bluetooth devices nearby trying to communicate with mine. I've used the .NET Framework 2.0 Confuration tool to adjust the zone security to give full trust to MyComputer, so I don't think it has to do with security, but I'm really going beyond my area of expertise here. I don't know what's going on.
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Feb 24, 2011
I am supposed to make a software for data logging via serial port but the hardware is expected to be delayed and iam required to continue with the programming of the software. What i need is that by some mechanism i want to send data on serial port (COM port) and after delay of some mili seconds i want to detect that data. I actually want to do this because i want to create environment like my software i intercepting COM port and on receiving data it captures the data values on port and record them to database. I have done most the work, the only thing left which i want is as above how i will send data on COM port (this was to actually to be done by hardware) and detect it in my program (same program from which data was sent). Please guide from where should i start.
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Apr 8, 2010
I did a search for "How do I implement Serial COM Port communications? and found a response by Xiaoyun Li which was last posted on April 10, 2009. Xiaoyun's response included sample code. My intent has been to get a clean compile on the sample code, then test it, then expand the code into a real application. I am down to a single error message, which I can't figure out how to resolve: "Method 'Public Sub DoUpdate()' does not have a signature compatible with delegate 'Delegate Sub EventHandler(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)'." [code]I marked where the error occurs in the code with *** to the right of the error line.The code is attached to a simple form, Form1 which contains a single text box, TextBox1.It appears to me that the code needs a Delegate statement, but I can't figure out how to code it or where to put it.d.
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Apr 13, 2012
I am getting scale values from a comm port into a richtextbox control, now as long as the connections and the scale is working great scale readings continuously flow into the control all the time, however when the connections or the scale is turned of the label that displays the weight will give a message saying error.
After 5 seconds I want to be able to give the operator the choice to take scale readings manually. This is my code so far.
Private Sub tmScaleTimer_Tick(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles tmScaleTimer.Tick
If rtbDisplay.Text.Length = i Then
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how do I restart the timer if the interval has elapsed
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Feb 9, 2010
I am writing a VB.NET app that has a piece which needs to send a small command to comm port 2 and get the return result. The problem is .NET doesnt have any support for serial communication seems like.
I just need to send the command "headtype" and get the result.
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Apr 11, 2012
I'm trying to make a rs232 serial data logging program, that accepts a 12 bit hex RFID tagID from an RFID module. My end objective is to save this RFID tagID into a database and assigned to a person for a personnel management system.I had to use button3 to add the value of the variable 'msg' into textbox1 because I was getting the following error "Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'TextBox1' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on". It is a temporary workaround.When I do press button3, I get the incomplete hex number, instead of "4C00A2C82A0C", I get "A2C82A0C", and sometimes I get random digits like 1,A,C etc etc.
Public Sub OpenPort()
Try
If SerialPort1.IsOpen Then
SerialPort1.Close()
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Aug 6, 2009
I have a smart card reader/writer hooked up to my serial port. i've already coded the program to give access to the serial port. How would I go about getting my Card Reader/writer recognized in my program. I basically want to click the "read button" and whatever is on the current smart card im trying to read, pop up on the screen.
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Feb 12, 2009
In Form1 there are a lot of boxes like checkbox, label....I want to show a processing message for opening serial port after program running. So I created Form2 specifically showing "Opening Port...". So in Form1_Load() I used Form2.Show(). However this message showed behind of Form1. I think this was executed before all the other tool boxes loading. So where should I put Form2.Show()?
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Aug 15, 2010
buildLetter.Append("</head>").AppendLine();
buildLetter.Append("").AppendLine();
buildLetter.Append("<style type="text/css">").AppendLine();
Assume the above contents resides in a file. I want to write a snippet that removes any line which has empty string "" and put escape character before the middle quotations. The final output would be:
buildLetter.Append("</head>").AppendLine();
buildLetter.Append("<style type="text/css">").AppendLine();
The outer " .... " is not considered special chars. The special chars may be single quotation or double quotation. I could run it via find and replace feature of Visual Studio. However, in my case I want it to be written in c# or VB.NET
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Jan 30, 2009
I have a couple of strings (in Ms-Word) which I copy and paste into variables in visual studo. Ms-Word uses high ansi characters for double quotes ("x"). I need the same in my app too. There seems to be no easy way to do this.
1. Visual Studio converts them to simple double quotes ("x") if I let it format the line automatically (auto-indent/auto-format).
2. If I turn autoformatting off and put those characters, I can see the correct characters in the code in Visual Studio editor. But when program is run the behave same as the simple double quotes. They are treated as simple double quotes and converts to simple double quotes in the output.
The only way I could find out is to use Chr() etc. functions to concatenate the character codes at appropriate places. But that's tedious on large strings. I want something to escape these characters appropriately (just like we can put two double quotes to escape the simple double quote character). [code]
1. What is the correct way to escape these characters? I don't need string concatenation; I need it in one string (like x="abc").
2. Are there any other characters also which visual studio messes up?
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Dec 21, 2011
Essentially I am trying to replicate the Windows 7 (In-Windows) activation key TextBox form. The Form where it will auto capitalize letters, remove or deny all non alphanumeric characters except dashes every 5 characters that will be auto-input.I assume this can be done with a fairly complicated replacement Regular Expression but I cannot seem to create one to fit the needs.
This is an Example of what I have right now, but it creates an infinite loop as it removes all characters including dashes, than adds a dash, which changes the text and removes the dash again.
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Jul 5, 2011
all i have the following code <%= Replace(FindAndReplace(objDR.Item("LENTAB_NAME") ),"'","'") %> in this we are replacing the ' character with ', which is working fine. but when i tried to enter values like '"" then it is giving scripting error as
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