I need help in starting my school project. I am building a PC controlled robot using visual basic code with parallel port programming. I don't know how to start the project. Can someone help me start this project. It's due on the third week of March. I appreciate for someone to email with visual basic codes and how to do the parallel port interface. Thanks in advance. Nida H. Rafol

G'day, First you need to aquire a DLL that has the IO commands that VB doesn't. As a starting point go to www.lvr.com and have a look at some of the examples there. I think you can also pick up io.dll there. There have been others mentioned such as winio.dll. regards, Elric

Dear Nida: I had a similar problem (interfacing standard logis hardware with the parallel port)and solved it wonderfully by using a simple SW module easily downloaded (free) from the web. The only serious limitation: it works perfectly if your Visual Basic is installed in a PC with Windows 95, 97, ecc, but NOT if it is Windows NT. I am trying to find something similar also for NT, but have not yet got the right answer. If you are not using NT, let me know and I will give you every detail. Otherwise, let me all the same know, specially if you get some good hint. Arrivederci !