Power Basic RS232 / RS422 / RS485 serial communications software. Control multiple ports simultaneously. Includes line status / control, modem control, ANSI emulation, virtual ports (USB to serial, Bluetooth serial), hardware / software flow control.
Version: 7.0MarshallSoft Power Basic serial communications component library for RS232 and multi-drop RS485 and RS422 serial ports.
License: Free To Try $119.00
Operating System: Windows
Homepage: www.marshallsoft.com
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Use WSC4PB to write applications to access data from serial devices such as barcode scanners, modems, lab instruments, medical devices, USB serial devices, scales, GPS navigation, fingerprint scanners, printer servers, etc. Features of WSC4PB include:
- Supports 256 ports. Can control multiple ports simultaneously.
- Fully thread safe, port re-entrant, modem control, serial line status and control, and ANSI emulation.
- Uses the standard Windows API to communicate with any device connected to a RS232 serial port.
- Supports virtual serial ports (USB to serial converter, Bluetooth serial).
- State driven Xmodem and Ymodem on multiple ports simultaneously (up to 256 connections).
- Can send Windows messages on completion of events (incoming character, etc.).
- Includes 52 functions plus modem control.
- Supports any baud rate.
- Ability to specify the parity, word size, and number of stop bits.
- Includes multiple Power Basic example programs.
- Includes 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs.
- Does not depend on support libraries. Makes calls to Windows API functions only.
- Royalty free distribution with a compiled application.
- Source code is available.
- Free technical support and updates for one year.
- Fully functional evaluation version.
- Works with all 32-bit Power Basic compilers: PB/WIN, PB/CON, PB/DLL.
- Works with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows through Windows
Version 7.0: Fixed SioGets() - would never timeouts when overlapped I/O was enabled. Added SioOpen and SioClose. Added SioGetsQ - reads port until no incoming data for specified "quiet" time. Added example programs Scale.c and vc_Scale.cpp that read from a (serial) scale.
Version 6.0.1: Added additional error codes. Added SioErrorText() that returns text associated with specified error codes. Added SioPortInfo() that returns baud in BPS and the theoretical port CPS. Added SioGetsC() that receives an entire line through the stop (EOL) character. Added ReadGPS example program.
Version 5.4.1: Added SioCRC16 and SioCRC32 functions to compute 16-bit CCITT CRC or 32-bit CCITT CRC; Added SioCountWait function that waits for a specified number of incoming bytes before returning.
Version 5.4: Added SioLRC function to compute the "longitudinal redundancy check"; added additional error checks to SioQuiet and SioWaitFor; SioSetInteger open port requirement changed; modified SioReset to make it more tolerant opening slow virtual ports; Added SioCRC16, SioCRC32, and SioLRC.
Version 5.2: Added functions SioQuiet() and SioWaitFor().
Version 5.0: Added SioHexView() function; Supports 64-bits (WSC64.DLL).
Version 4.4: Added function to change TX and RX timeouts.