USB or serial extensions??

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    Hi all,
    I am a noob to CF and I am currently using the free edition of 2.5.
    I am planning to make an event and object based program for older children (and young at heart) to "program" an Arduino and many sensors and shields.

    I was planning to make the program in VB, but found CF and it is precisely how I envisioned creating my program.

    I'm wondering if there are USB or Serial extensions (USB preferred) and can batch files be executed from CF?

    Thank you for the help. :)

    Eric


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    I think there might be a (rather old) serial object available, but as I said, it's pretty old, so I don't know if it works with CF2.5 at all. Sadly, there are no USB objects that I know of. (That being said, the official page for the Serial object actually notes that it can be used with the Arduino, and best as I can tell, it seems to technically work with CF2.5, though I don't have any Serial port devices to test with at the moment. The site for the object: Please login to see this link.)

    Also, while I don't know for sure how to do so myself, I'd imagine that you could run batch files pretty easily... I mean, I'd imagine that all you need to do to be able to run them is to have a way to open them, correct? If so, then I'm pretty sure you can use CF2.5 to open files, so, again, I'd imagine it's possible to do (though I'm not exactly 100% sure on that one).

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    Greenfrog,
    I will be buying cf 2.5 shortly to test this out.

    I noticed there is a cf SDK that allows for custom objects/extensions.
    Can I use c++ and Windows APIs to create my own as well? I've done it in the past but obviously not to interface with cf

    Thanks.


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    Hey, there is an extension to communicate with USB device through HID protocol. It's HID Object, created by conceptgame. Take a look in this forum and you can find it. Also, Serial Object works in CF2.5. You can create an USB CDC communication :) I used a lot both extensions to interact with a PIC microcontroller.

    Tap And Go! released on Google Play Please login to see this link.

    I've taken a look, and I can't seem to find any threads for an object called HID object... Any clue which sub-forum you found it in?

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    Edited once, last by happygreenfrog (June 22, 2016 at 8:47 PM).

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    Hey, there is an extension to communicate with USB device through HID protocol. It's HID Object, created by conceptgame. Take a look in this forum and you can find it. Also, Serial Object works in CF2.5. You can create an USB CDC communication :) I used a lot both extensions to interact with a PIC microcontroller.

    That's very interesting Ls2 - I'd love to hear more about what you did there...

    I'm electronic engineer. I have used CF2.0 and CF2.5 to build all kind of software necessary to control the hardware that I made (inversors, smart showers, dataloggers, human-machine interface, etc.). Currently I'm working on a temperature-measurement system to monitor the temperature in some mechanical parts of the company's locomotives I work for. A CF2.5-made software will store and show the data.

    CF2.5 is a really versatile tool. The downside is that I have neglected to learn other programing languages (I only know C) because I can do 90% of I want faster and more intuitively using the CF2.5 ;)

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    Edited once, last by Ls2 (June 23, 2016 at 2:23 PM).

    That's awesome and good inspiration for me. I wanted to make sure that cf was also good with non games. Thanks for your comments.

    Perfect timing too. Cf is on sale now. Looks like it's time to retire the free version lol.

    Ohh one last question. The GUI Elements in cf seem a little limited. Are there objects for more GUI elements also. I didn't see any in the store.

    Thanks again!!


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    Things like text boxes, different button styles, areas to display video inside of a frame etc.
    basically just elements/objects needed to make the user interface look "pretty" in a non-game environment.

    Ty Simon


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    I just found this:
    Please login to see this link.

    That answers my questions. I'm using the free version currently and I only had a text box, button, list, and combo box.

    The other versions have what I'm looking for 😬


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