Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to control the individual pins of the parallel port precisely. I simply want to read each pin (i.e. see if it is in up or down state) and also control them (move them to up or down state). It would be best if I could do this in java or c++. Thanks!

Nick

Pst! It's usually faster to check Google first.

I checked google and found a parallel port library for java before I posted here. The difference is that the library I found and everything else I can seem to find suggests that you can write one byte to the eight data pins and read one byte from the eight "status" pins, but I want to know if:
1) You can access the other eight pins (25 total - 1 gnd - 8 data - 8 status = 8 left)
2) You can read and write on any of them.

Basically I was hoping to find a library with two commands:
bool checkPin(int pinNum);
void writePin(int pinNum, bool newState);

This is what I couldn't find on google.

Thanks!

Nick

The other pins are also ground. The status and data bytes can be read and write individually using bitwise operations.

That is it, they are ground

George

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