Or, you can try the Win32 serio libary from:

http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/serio/serio.zip

Might be a lot simpler than interfacing with COM. I know handling COM events is a serious pain in MFC, I'm not sure how easy or difficult it is with Borland.

Are you using C# or C++?

Check out http://www.codeproject.com/system/cserialport.asp

for a MFC serial port wrapper.

For C# there was serial IO code on a now closed page. Go to Google and search for "C# serial port Marcus Lorentzon 2001" and then view the cached page.

I see that most of the real dirty work of creating those fonts is available in the BIGDISPL.DAT file - It's just an ASCII file with the character position data for every leter in the character set. So it seems I can go that route pretty easily. I could also easily grab the custom VFD character ...

Hi everyone,

I've finally finished building my case and I'm now at the point where I'm getting ready to start programming my 4 line character VFD. I apologize in advance if I'm asking questions that are already asked or discussed.

Reading through the posts here, I see there are several "host ...