A website with various source code and resources for Visual Basic and Visual Basic. Net. Monitor 1. 6 Data Acquisition Magazines Visual Basic Corner. Issue 1. 6 Magazines and Visual Basic Programming. CONTENTSWindmill News Charting from Excel Magazines on the Web VB Corner. WINDMILL NEWS MORE HELP FOR EXCEL USERSThe Help for our Harvester program has been improved for Excel users. It tells you, for example, how to chart data in real time from cells in the spreadsheet. As the values change in Excel they change on the chart. You can similarly log data from Excel cells time stamping every reading. You can download the new Help from the Windmill Help page. Harvester can route data from many different sources, not just Excel, into a Windmill data acquisition and control system. Example on how to use the Netcomm. Pencom Design. It obtains data from Windows applications using dynamic data exchange. The data then becomes accessible to other Windmill modules, like Chart and Logger. Many Windows applications make data available over DDE. For instance industrial networks such as Lon. Works and FIP. data acquisition hardware drivers. Without the Harvester program, Windmill can only respond to requests from a DDE client. With Harvester, Windmill can take the initiative and start and stop DDE conversations. Harvester costs 1. US dollars or 2. 78 Euros. More details are on the. Harvester page. Many magazines publish on the internet and offer comprehensive archives of previous issues. Here we cover some of the more useful in the data acquisition field. Industrial Technology. Updated weekly for product design engineers and machine builders. UK based but includes an enormous library of articles under category headings like Sensors Test and Measurement and Drives, Motors and Controls. You can browse categories or search through the entire archive. Also covers European exhibitions and conferences. The Automotive Test Report. Visual Basic Example Serial Port' title='Visual Basic Example Serial Port' />Although primarily for automotive engineers, this newsletter. The archive goes back to January 1. Data Acquisition Systems Help Ensure. Quality Products, Whats Up With Smart Sensors and Test. More Modules in Less Test Time. This topic describes how to use My. Computer. Ports to show the available serial ports of the computer in Visual Basic. To allow a user to select which port to use, the. Control Engineering International. Covers control, instrumentation and automation systems. The on line version appears to include every thing youd find in the copy on your desk, plus some articles unique to the web presence. American based but with global coverage, it offers industry news, details of new products, articles, tutorials and discussion forums. The site also lets you search 3 years of back issues. The discussion forums let people paste questions and hopefully receive answers. However, there are many more questions than answers. Three boards are available one to help buyers find products and suppliers one to post automation or control problems and one to discuss ARC Net. They are reasonably busy for bulletin boards, with postings every couple of days. Test and Measurement World Online. This magazine is aimed at engineers who test electronic products and components. Install Dpm Agent Manually Work Group Windows 7. It offers articles archived back to 1. Stand Alone Test Instruments, PC Based Test and Environmental Test. You can also search for products, but rather inconveniently have to do so by issue date. Electronics Times. The dot electronics site encompasses Electronics Times and other related magazines. It is news orientated and updated daily, with weekly compilations archived. A good place to look for European industry, technology and business news, but not the site to find articles or tutorials. Pollution Enginering Online. Covers news, features and products for measurement, monitoring, pollution prevention and air and water treatment around the world. A monthly column discusses information technology issues and how they apply to the environmental industries. A series of case studies show how environmental problems are successfully solved. Flow Control. The US based Flow Control Magazine is a very good resource for the fluid handling industry focusing on control, containment, and measurement. It features articles, news reports, case studies and US product directories. It also invites readers to participate in a discussion forum. Oher Magazines you might find Useful. Electronic Business Asia. Provides comprehensive coverage of the electronics industryhttp www. Global Design News. International web site for product designers. Scientific Computing and Instrumentation. News, products and feature articles. Science articles and product news. Engineers Australia. Australian and world engineering news and articles. Instrumentation and Automation News. US product information. Instrumentation Control Systems. Control technology for US based engineers and engineering management. This month we discuss how to use an HTML page to generate the user interface for your Visual Basic application. You can download the code for this months VB corner. It covers. Preparing your form. Loading the HTML page. Sending data to your Form controls. Preparing Your Form. The html container control in your VB form will display a normal. HTML page. The page we have prepared as a sample is called. The page itself can be viewed with Internet Explorer. You can edit the html in any editor, for example Notepad. Start. htm uses normal html tags, but where controls or text. VB program itself, we need to. We do this by giving them an ID, for example IDla. Status. We can change the text in the la. Status element from within our VB program. Loading the HTML Page. Your VB program needs the Microsoft Internet Controls to use the. HTML container. In your VB project, click on Project. Components. and make sure Microsoft Internet Controls is checked. You add the web browser control to your VB form we have called. In your FormLoad routine you now need to load a document into. The VB code is. StartFile. Spec c start. Navigate StartFile. Spec. Because the page takes time to load, we cannot try to interact. The Web Browser control. So in the. formload routine we wait until a flag indicates the page is. Html. Started False. While Not Html. Started. The flag Html. Started is set true in an event handler in. Document. Complete, where we also set a variable to represent. Set d wb. Document. Html. Started True. Linking to your Form Controls. Now that the page is up and running we can receive events from. When the user clicks a button on the form, the event bubbles up. VB program. Here it generates. Since our document is called d, we. Click. All the click events come through here, so we must determine which. In. our example we just set flags to say the event has occurred. Here. is the whole routine. Private Function donclick As Boolean. Pick up the operator clicking on the form buttons. On Error Go. To donclickError. Handles all button clicks from all screens. Element. Id. Select Case UCasea. Case PBCONFIRM. Set the action confirmed flag. Op. Acknowledged True. Case PBCLOSE. shutdown at the end of the next test loop. App. Finished True. End Select. donclickExit. Exit Function. donclickError. Resume donclickExit. When we want to display something on the page, we find the control. ID, and set new text. The following routine changes. Private Sub Show. Statusmy. Text. Set obj. Form d. Allla. Status. Form. inner. Text my. Text. If you want to change the way the text is displayed, you can. HTML tags and use obj. Form. innerhtml my. Text. Future VB Corners. In Decembers VB corner we will put data acquisition and control into our page by extending our HTML container to include the Windmill IML Tools Active. X control. Our other Visual Basic articles are in.