[slinkelist] Re: Using the ActiveX Control

[Colby Boles]

You can have any number of devices connected to a port. That's how it is done.

Colby


At 04:44 PM 10/27/99 -0600, rbrocaw wrote:
>Many thank to Colby, who has provided the information to get me going
>with the
>Slinke ActiveX control.  So far I have written a small program in Visual
>Basic that
>allows me to do the basic functions of my Sony CDP-CX300 changer.
>
>There is just one piece left to my puzzle... how to get the responses
>from the player.
>I am using the CDSLS.CDE file which has the commands to the player, but
>if I use
>that device file, I don't get most of the responses back from the
>player.  If I use the
>CDSLR.CDE device file, I get the reponses, but I lose control.
>Apparently, there
>can be only one device file per Slinke port, but I won't have enough
>ports to
>dedicate two to the player, and I'm not sure that would work anyway.  I
>have
>tried to concatenate the two files, and that allows some commands and
>some
>responses, depending on which file is first.
>
>There must be some way to get both the commands and the responses into
>the same
>device file.  HELP!
>
>Richard Brocaw
>rbrocaw@flash.net
>
>

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