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RE: [AVR-Chat] [OT]Message station demo

2005-11-01 by Clark, Andy

Hello list,

To continue John's (ah, a fellow Delphile) theme, there's an oldish Delphi program of mine called AndySnag available in Downloads at...

http://www.andyc0204.f2s.com/

It's a serial port keyboard stuffer which will send characters received though the serial port to a selected windows application as keypresses, allowing simple PC remote control.

It's a single exe file which displays a list of active Window's applications along with COM port options (8 data, 1 stop bit).

e.g. run Notepad then AndySnag, highlight Notepad in the list, set your COM port accordingly and press GO. Send serial characters to the port and watch them miraculously appear in notepad.

It's a bit ruff but should work. There are a couple of other Delphi apps which may be of interest to AVR-chatters; an update of Jack Tidwell's (what ever did happen to Jack?) avr timing calculator and a simple Timing Diagram editor.

The site is seriously in need of updating and most of the apps have been revised so if there's any interest I'll put the latest versions online.

AndyC

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From: John Samperi [mailto:samperi@ampertronics.com.au]
Sent: 01 November 2005 00:06
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AVR-Chat] [OT]Message station demo

G'day

I have updated a demo file of an application I wrote
with Delphi. It is a cross between Notepad and Hyperterm,
simple text files can be created and managed and then send
out to the serial port. In ASCII-CR mode the text is send
out followed by a carriage return. In packet mode it sends
the text out in a packet using 9 bit MPCM using our own
protocol for RS485.

The other end is of course a module with an AVR on it :-)
May end up putting the protocol and the driver (ASM) on the
website one of these days.

Regards

John Samperi

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Re: [AVR-Chat] [OT]Message station demo

2005-11-01 by Don AE5K

Clark, Andy wrote:

> The site is seriously in need of updating and most of the apps have been
> revised so if there's any interest I'll put the latest versions online.

Yes, please do!  I've used Andyrate many times.  Source for Andysnag
would be welcome too.

Don

RE: [AVR-Chat] [OT]Message station demo

2005-11-01 by John Samperi

At 08:21 PM 1/11/2005, you wrote:
>(ah, a fellow Delphile)

Not a very good one unfortunately, still finding my way around.
I'm trying to get a Borland Delphi package but the price is
prohibitive. I will be going to the launch of D2006 on the 16th,
I will have to pester Borland.

Mean while I am trying to use Lazarus (FREE!! but 33Mb download)
it has a Delphi project to Lazarus project converter so, in theory,
you should be able to transfer your existing code across with
little effort. As it is being developed by volunteers it takes
sometimes to get some of the bugs fixed. It does not seem to be
worse than what we have had with Studio :-D

I'm sure they would appreciate it if anyone would like to transfer
their Delphi code to Lazarus and give them some feedback, in the end
we would be helping ourselves if we help them or we will just have
to wear Borland's prices.



Regards

John Samperi

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Ampertronics Pty. Ltd.
11 Brokenwood Place Baulkham Hills, NSW 2153 AUSTRALIA
Tel. (02) 9674-6495       Fax (02) 9674-8745
Email: john@ampertronics.com.au
Website  http://www.ampertronics.com.au
*Electronic Design * Custom Products * Contract Assembly
********************************************************