activex maybe

thebluearcher · Post by **thebluearcher** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:09 pm

just a thought

how are you at creating an activex control

this way I could handle the display any way I wished while
the activex control handles the comms with the ecm

thanx

Post by **Mangus** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:06 pm

Sorry I missed this post. =)

I don't use activeX, nor do I intend to. The reason is basically that I'm not using MFC (MFC makes easy the task of wrapping ActiveX and OLE controls).

I create all my controls using standard, straight Win32 C++.

I'm not sure what impact the user would see if I did use activeX. What are you suggesting you'd need this for?

thebluearcher · Post by **thebluearcher** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:15 pm

Thats quite alright
I am playing around with an ecm from a 88 iroc
I have an 88 iroc I am rebuilding
trying to learn what it takes I have finally been able to
get my vb program to accept what appears to be 8192 baud
(I checked this with a 486-50mhx machine run ecm852.exe)
and on my vb terminal I get a string of hex and that appears to be right

but tried some hex strings from different docs to try to get the 64 byte
string from the ecm but can't seem to get the right thing

just thought a activex control might help
not trying to make any commerical product just for myself
thanx
and any suggestion would be greatly apprecated (sp) to get me on the right track

Post by **Mangus** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:27 pm

For your 88, you need to send $80, $56, $01, $29 out to the port at 8192 baud, then immediately poll the port until you get the reply. Keep in mind that the ECM reply will be the 4 byte echo of the data you sent (due to cable design) + 3 bytes of ECM header info + 63 byte data packet + 1 byte data checksum.

thebluearcher · Post by **thebluearcher** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:38 pm

i made it read tonight think i will be alright decodeing it all now