WinWedge Version 3.0 32 Bit Standard Edition User Manual
WinWedge is an extremely powerful utility that is designed to add serial communications capabilities to any 32 bit Windows (95/98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP) application. The primary function of WinWedge is to provide a way to connect any RS232, RS422 or RS485 device to a PC and be able to read or write data to or from the device directly from within any Windows application without the need for a custom serial device driver. Typical kinds of serial instruments being used with WinWedge include bar code and magnetic stripe readers, electronic balances, measuring tools including calipers and gages, temperature sensors, telephone call logging systems, pH and color meters, PLCs, coordinate measuring machines, optical comparators, digital volt meters, GPS receivers and a wide variety of other laboratory or industrial instruments that communicate over a standard serial interface.
WinWedge can transfer serial data to any Windows application either by sending the data as keystrokes or by providing data as a DDE (dynamic data exchange) server. You can also set up the “Wedge” to issue commands to another application after each record of incoming serial data has been received. Thus you could cause the receiving application to perform actions based on the data being received; for example you could force an application to run a macro or update a graph or chart in real time using the data received from the device. To send data out the serial port, you can use a special set of DDE commands to transmit character strings directly from another program.
WinWedge offers an array of features including the ability to parse and filter data received through the serial port as well as add additional data including date/time stamps or cursor navigation keystrokes to incoming data. Two translation tables allows you to translate incoming characters to other characters or to specific keystrokes. You may even pre-define “Serial Output Strings” that can be transmitted to your serial device either automatically at regular timed intervals or by clicking your mouse on a button in WinWedge window or by pressing a “Hot Key” on your PC’s keypad. All these features make it possible to create extremely sophisticated device control interfaces for virtually any serial instrument directly from within any Windows application program.
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