Windows MCE with VK202-24-USB

Yoyo · Post by **Yoyo** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:28 pm

Hello All,

Sorry I am a newbie at this. But I just bought a VK202-24-USB and wanted to play around with this and MCE. I've downloaded MCE SDK. Does anyone have any examples how to write to the screen with MCE? Or any suggestions or point me to the right direction is greatly appreciated.

Have a good day.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:39 am

Hi Yoyo,

Thank you for posting on the forum.

What type of programming language are you using?

I will describe to you how you basically communicate with the display. When you plug in VK202-24-USB, load the drivers, the driver creates a virtual com port like com 4 for example. If you can find a library for communicating with a com port, you can write information to the display. All you would need to do is send data to the com port.

You can find any detailed information on the VK202-24-USB in the manual at

http://www.matrixorbital.ca/manuals/VK_ ... 02-24-USB/

Best Regards,

Yoyo · Post by **Yoyo** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:03 pm

Thanks Tom,

I will be using C/C++. Thanks for your help Tom.

Anyone who knows where I can get some libraries to communicate to the screen?

Thanks in Advanced!

Post by **Ray** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:09 pm

Since you already have the SDK you must have noticed MCE is pretty much all managed code, if you want to get started quickly i suggest switching to C# of VB and using Omar Shahine's front panel sdk

Then all you need to do is implement an interface and talking to the display, talking to the display is simple serial communication if you will be using dotnet 2.0 support for serial communication should already be build into the class library, if you are using 1.1 you can use loman's serial stream class

Those two should be enough to get you started

Yoyo · Post by **Yoyo** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:03 pm

Thanks Ray for your help. I will take a look at Omar SDK.

Thanks again for helping me out.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:48 pm

Sounds interesting. The switch from C/C++ to VB.NET or C# is fairly easy, the only thing you have to get used to in VB.NET is NOT having semi-colons. lol I can't remember how many times I've done that and wondered what was wrong.

If you run into any problems feel free to post them in this thread and I'll help you through them. Sounds like an exciting project. If anybody knows of any sample projects like this feel free to post links.

Thanks
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Jonathan
Sales Associate
Matrix Orbital

Yoyo · Post by **Yoyo** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:11 pm

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your help. Yep, this is going to be a fun project for sure. I wish I can get some examples to get a better understanding. Like you can see, I am pretty new at this. I will definitely post when I need some help. Thanks again for helping.