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USB Cash Drawer Open Function in VDS

 
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Teamgreentech
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:33 pm    Post subject: USB Cash Drawer Open Function in VDS Reply with quote

Hi All, I'm working on a little project and want to add a button to my dialog
to open a USB Cash Drawer that I have connected to my PC.

I need to send a Carrage Return value to Port 3 which is the port that the Serial emulator usb driver is listening on and apparantly sending data or a character will cuase the cash drawer to open. Seems to be lots of internet chatter about doing this with Java but I am even worse with java than I am with VDS Laughing

Perhaps someone can advise how I might achieve this ?

Many thanks for your help
Andy - Teamgreentech

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What VDS Version? For VDS 6

Code:

REM Before Dialog Create
EXTERNAL VDSCOM60.DLL
#DEFINE COMMAND,COMM

REM After Dialog Show
COMM OPEN,COMM3, 9600, 4, N, 1
COMM SENDLINE,""
COMM CLOSE


Code:

COMM   [VDS6]

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Syntax:
 
COMM OPEN,<port>,<speed>,<databits>,<parity>,<stopbits>
COMM CLOSE
COMM SEND,<text>
COMM SENDLINE,<text>
 
Requires:
 

EXTERNAL VDSCOM60.DLL
#DEFINE COMMAND,COMM
Description:
 
The COMM command allows a DialogScript program to communicate with an external device using a serial port. The allowed options are:
 
COMM OPEN,...
Opens the serial port for communication. Note that only a single serial port may be opened at a time. The parameters are:
<port>
Specifies the serial port to open: COM1 ... COM8
<speed>
Specifies the communication speed in bits per second. Valid values are: 110, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200
<databits>
Specifies the number of data bits. Valid values are: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
<parity>
Specifies the parity. Valid values are: N (none), O (odd), E (even), M (mark), S (space)
<stopbits>
Specifies the number of stop bits. Valid values are: 1, 2
COMM CLOSE
Closes the serial port
COMM SEND,...
Sends a string of text to the serial port
COMM SENDLINE,...
Sends a string of text to the serial port, followed by a line feed.
 
When a serial port is open and data is received, a COMMEVENT event is generated. The script can respond to this event by using the @COMM function to obtain the data that was sent.
 
OK:
 
Set to false if an error occurs.
 
See also:
 

@COMM






 
See an advanced example...
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where is the vdscom6.dll? I can't find it on the vdsworld.com site. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's in the Visual DialogScript 6 root directory on install.

I'm not sure if my script example above will actually work, because VDS might interpret "" as an invalid variable. If this happens try @null()

I don't actually own VDS6 so I can't compile and test.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for getting back to me on this question your advise is appreciated. I only have version 5 of VDS and as I needed to sort this out quite quickly I pushed on and came up with a rather uneligant solution which was to runh a batchfile with com call to send a data file to the port. It works but I don't like it Wink

Maybe I'll upgrade to VDS 6 as I seem to be back in the VDS programming world and my business is slowly gaining momentum now Smile

The batch command solutiuon I came up with if anyone is interested for future ref is as follows:

Code:
if @match(1,%%Code_encrypt)
    Runh C:\Eject\FireDrawer.bat
    %%row = @item(1)
    List Clear,1
    Parse "%%Name;%%Pass",%%row
  if @file(c:\windows\system32\cqp.log)
   List Loadfile,2,c:\windows\system32\cqp.log
   end
    List Add,2,Drawer opened by %%Name on @datetime(dd/mm/yyyy) at @datetime(hh:nn)
    List Savefile,2,c:\windows\system32\cqp.log
    List Clear,2
    info CASH DRAWER OPEN !@cr()please remember to close the cash drawer@cr()when you have finished the transaction!
    Goto Evloop


The Batch file content is here:
@echo off
@mode com3:9600,8,n,1 > nul
@echo c:\eject\FireDrawer.bat > com3:
exit

that was it really, bit of a faf but if anyone get stuck for an option to sent data to a com port and does not have VDS6 then it is a get out of jail card Wink

Best Regards to all
Andy - TeamGreenTech

cnodnarb wrote:
What VDS Version? For VDS 6

Code:

REM Before Dialog Create
EXTERNAL VDSCOM60.DLL
#DEFINE COMMAND,COMM

REM After Dialog Show
COMM OPEN,COMM3, 9600, 4, N, 1
COMM SENDLINE,""
COMM CLOSE


Code:

COMM   [VDS6]

Top  Previous  Next

Syntax:
 
COMM OPEN,<port>,<speed>,<databits>,<parity>,<stopbits>
COMM CLOSE
COMM SEND,<text>
COMM SENDLINE,<text>
 
Requires:
 

EXTERNAL VDSCOM60.DLL
#DEFINE COMMAND,COMM
Description:
 
The COMM command allows a DialogScript program to communicate with an external device using a serial port. The allowed options are:
 
COMM OPEN,...
Opens the serial port for communication. Note that only a single serial port may be opened at a time. The parameters are:
<port>
Specifies the serial port to open: COM1 ... COM8
<speed>
Specifies the communication speed in bits per second. Valid values are: 110, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200
<databits>
Specifies the number of data bits. Valid values are: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
<parity>
Specifies the parity. Valid values are: N (none), O (odd), E (even), M (mark), S (space)
<stopbits>
Specifies the number of stop bits. Valid values are: 1, 2
COMM CLOSE
Closes the serial port
COMM SEND,...
Sends a string of text to the serial port
COMM SENDLINE,...
Sends a string of text to the serial port, followed by a line feed.
 
When a serial port is open and data is received, a COMMEVENT event is generated. The script can respond to this event by using the @COMM function to obtain the data that was sent.
 
OK:
 
Set to false if an error occurs.
 
See also:
 

@COMM






 
See an advanced example...
Code:

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