Help getting status of cash drawer in Gambas
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Hi all,
The above page shows how I can get the status of the attached cash drawer on a Epson printer could someone please show me how it would convert into Gambas? I ask as I have a sort of working code in FreeBASIC but I am not sure as to how I can convert it to Gambas code.
Once this has been figure this out then all I need to do is work out how to process the status of the printer it self (that is normally low paper, cover open or offline)
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I have a sort of working code in FreeBASIC but I am not sure as to how I can convert it to Gambas code.
Please post the FreeBASIC code? That may help us to help you, as I suspect no one will have your printer to experiment on.
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cogier said
I have a sort of working code in FreeBASIC but I am not sure as to how I can convert it to Gambas code.
Please post the FreeBASIC code? That may help us to help you, as I suspect no one will have your printer to experiment on.
Well it seems I do not have working code in FreeBASIC i have looked at all my Code projects and For some reason in the past
I removed the cash drawer support and now I can not find the code I did.
I am looking at my emails to see if I can find the email with the code on but I am sorry at this moment in time I do not have the code
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it should give a idea of what to do with the Epson code)
Code
Dim status As String
Open COM "COM1:9600,N,8,1,CD0,CS0,DS0,rs" As #1
Print #1, Chr(10) & Chr(4) & 1
While Loc(1) =0
Sleep 1
Wend
status = Input(Loc(1), 1)
Print Bin(Val(status),8)
If Bit(Val(status), 3) = -1 Then
Print "Kickout connector high"
Else
Print "Kickout connector low"
EndIf
If Bit(Val(status), 4) = -1 Then
Print "Offline"
Else
Print "Online"
EndIf
If Bit(Val(status), 6) = -1 Then
Print "Waiting for Online Recovery"
Else
Print "Not Waiting for Online Recovery"
EndIf
If Bit(Val(status), 7) = -1 Then
Print "Paper fed by button"
Else
Print "Paper not fed by button"
EndIf
Close #1
if i remember right it should get the status from the printer and load it into the location called status and then print this to the screen (example 00000000) this will change depending on the status of the printer (if the cash drawer is open then it should look something like this 00100000)
I hope this helps someone to point me in the right direction
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