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Ports and Interfaces => Parallel Port => Topic started by: Felipe on April 04, 2011, 10:12:59 pm

Title: How to control a usb/parallel converter in Visual Basic ‏ 6.0
Post by: Felipe on April 04, 2011, 10:12:59 pm

Hello,

I am a Brasilian student and I Would like to control a usb/parallel converter in Visual Basic 6.0. My problem is: I can't control using "inpout32.dll". This dll is only for internal parallel port. What dll should I use to control a usb/parallel converter? Jan, do you have one example in Visual Basic 6.0?
 
Thank you very much
Felipe-Brazil

Title: Re: How to control a usb/parallel converter in Visual Basic ‏ 6.0
Post by: Jan Axelson on April 04, 2011, 10:31:11 pm

All of the USB/parallel adapters I'm aware of are designed to work only with printers.

You could give this a try:

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/USB2LPT/index.html.en

If you just want to do some I/O, the development boards here are another option:

http://www.janaxelson.com/usb_device_hardware.htm#development_boards

Jan