SRBox Port Number configured at runtime?

[DGirard]

Thanks for your response, David. On one machine, the COM port number
won't change once I plug in the USB SRBox and it gets assigned a port
number. HOWEVER, from machine to machine, the COM ports assigned may
be different. That is a problem for us. We would like to be able to
develop and generate one script file and distribute it around to
different machines that have only the runtime version of E-Prime on
them (no developer components). Currently, when our application is
"compiled" the COM port number basically gets hard-coded into the
code, so we would have to generate 4 different versions of the code
for all possible COM port assignments. This seems a bit ridiculous.

To answer a few of your other questions: We are using E-Prime 2.0. And
someone from the IT department installs the runtime components of E-
Prime on our machines as an Administrator, but afterward we are only
ever running as a User (not an admin).

Thanks again,
- Doug

On Jan 25, 11:26 am, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff
> takes any and all questions athttp://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp, and they
> strive to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours -- this is pretty
> much their substitute for proper documentation, so make full use of
> it.  3) If you do get an answer from PST Web Support, please extend
> the courtesy of posting their reply back here for the sake of others.
>
> That said, here is my take...
>
> What version of E-Prime do you use?  More importantly, what do you
> mean by "when we plug the device into a computer, it will be assigned
> whatever COM port is available"?  Do you really mean that any single
> computer has dynamically assigned COM ports that can change whenever
> you plug a device into it?  I have never heard of such a thing, so I
> would like to know more.  Typically COM port addresses remain static
> in any one machine, so once you know what it is on that machine you
> can plug the SRBox into the COM port and it will not change, and you
> can edit the .es or .es2 file for that machine to refer to the
> appropriate COM port (just make sure that the COM port lies in the range 1-4).
>
> There are ways to do something like what you ask in both EP1 and EP2,
> but I don't yet understand why your situation requires this.
>
> BTW, if you do not have admin access to these PCs, then how do you
> get EP installed on them in the first place?
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> At 1/23/2011 09:30 AM Sunday, you wrote:
>
> >We are using an SRBox and it seems we have to configure the COM port
> >number at design time. This doesn't work for us since when we plug the
> >device into a computer, it will be assigned whatever COM port is
> >available. We won't have administrative access on these machines, so
> >we won't be able to reassign the COM port with Device Manager. Even if
> >we could, it is possible that another device is currently using that
> >COM port number. So basically, we need the ability to specify the COM
> >port number of the SRBox to e-Prime at runtime. Is there a way to do
> >this with an external config file or something?
>
> >Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> >Doug
>
>

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