RedRatCom v1.11 A COM Library for RedRat2/3 support

Welcome to RedRatCom, a simple COM based library which can be used to support the "RedRat2/3" Infra-red communications transmitter / receiver. RedRatCom is a standard COM EXE developed in ATL in VC 2005 SP1.

The enclosed zip file contains the RedRatCom source code, and Unicode Release binary and a sample VB app to test all the methods of the classes.

Features

• Can be used by any development environment which supports calling an out of process COM object.
• Can be used by early or late bound clients i.e. COM development environments which do not use type libraries such as ASP, VBScript and JScript are fully compatible with RedRatCom.
• Allows connections to RedRat devices to be shared between multiple clients i.e. multiple client processes can share the one connection to the device's serial port !!.
• A COM collection is provided to allow clients to enumerate existing connections which they can then connect to. This allows VB clients for example to use the "For Each" collection syntax.
• Alternatively, clients can open up a new connection and specify that the connection is not to be made sharable.
• COM Connection points are provided in the library to allow client apps to be notified in real time of incoming signals.

Copyright

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

Updates

V1.0 (1 January 2003)

• Initial public release.

V1.1 (10 January 2003)

• COM errors from the library now include english descriptions of the errors if possible. The error codes are documented at http://www.redrat.co.uk/RedRat2/SoftDev/SD_errorcodes.html

13 March 2003

• Minor update to the documentation and the sample VB program.

V1.11 (24 January 2006)

• Updated documentation to use the same style as the web site.
• Code is now built and delivered using VC 2005 SP1.
• Now uses v1.21 of the author's CSerialPort class.
• Complete review of the code in light of use of ATL8.
• The IConnectionPointImplMT class which RedRatCom makes use of internally is being made available as freeware.