Recent content by SteveGlover

I seem ro remember that you have to add a semi-colon ; to the end of the dial string, otherwise the modem will try to establish a data connection, something like ATDT phonenumber ; This should cause the modem to dial the number, then return to command mode without establishing a data...

My App uses the VB PDWizard to install. Its been stable for several years now and I've had no problems installing on Windows 98 or XP. However, a customer has just tried installing on Vista and run into problems. The installation program gives the error message "an error occured while installing...

Using the Resource editor I've set up a number of string tables for different languages. VB picks the string table to use by looking at the Regional setting of the PC, and in most cases this works fine. However, in a few cases I need to override the automatic selection. For example, the Region...

Hi I've used the VB6 Resource Editor to create 2 resource string tables to support both German and English text. This works more or less as I'd expect - on a PC with English (UK) regional settings the App displays in English, and changing the regional setting to German(Standard) displays in...

Hi I've used the VB6 Resource Editor to create 2 resource string tables to support both German and English text. This works more or less as I'd expect - on a PC with English (UK) regional settings the App displays in English, and changing the regional setting to German(Standard) displays in...

Hi You don't say if the modem manages to connect after the ATDT command, ie does it return "CONNECT"? I guess that it didn't connect, in which case the following is true... Sending ATDTxxx, followed by ATH (or any other characters before the modem has connected) will abort the connection and...

Hi I'm not sure that the following is the most efficient way of doing it, but it seems simple enough and works OK. Inside your visible frame put a picture box, and turn off its border so you can't see it. In the picture box put a another frame, and turn off its border too. Place your controls...

Hi Most autobaud methods rely on measuring the width of the start bit. To do this on a PC you would need to be able to directly sample the RX data line from the RS232 connector, but I don't think this is possible. RX data connects directly into the UART. The second problem would be to...

I've got a Nokia 6310i phone connected to my PC via a USB lead. I'm tring to get the phone to answer a call from another modem by sending it "ATA" when I get the "RING" from the phone. The problem is that the Nokia phone will only answer a call in voice mode, so it cannot connect to the other...

Depends what you mean by a "Typical Windows program". Most end users seem to be familiar with Word or Excel, which have an MDI interface. That's the approach I normally take unless its a trivial program. If you're concerned about using lots of different "small" forms, try using a single form...

If you want to send digits 1234 in the middle of a voice call, then send "ATDT1234;" to the modem. It works on my Hayes modem.

Not certain for sure, but ListBox is a standard control used by many Windows applications, so its probably supplied by one of the standard Windows DLLs, such as USER32.DLL

Thanks MattsTech Office installer asks for the Office Pro CDROM which I don't have, so it doesn't complete. When I cancel it, it immediately runs again, and the only way of stopping it is to End my Application from the task from Task Manager. The Task Manager shows that my Application is...

The following should work: (don't send the " characters) Establish the voice call by sending "ATDTxxxxxxx;" where xxx is the phone number to dial. The modem should immediately respond OK, and its now back in command mode with the voice call open. To put the modem into data mode send it "ATDT"...

Using the PD Wizard I've installed a VB6 application on 30 or so PC's without problems, but I'm having trouble installing onto one PC running XP. The install goes OK but running the application starts up a Microsoft Office Pro install program instead. I can duplicate this fault on a different...