[Gambas-user] Accessing parallel port...

[Rob Kudla]

On Sat October 22 2005 13:00, Primorec wrote:
> write your stuff in C using http://parapin.sourceforge.net/
> and talk from GAMBAS to the parallel port through system call

It depends.  Parapin's only good for pin-level stuff.... largely 
homebrew projects where you use individual pins for signaling.  
I looked at it last year for a 80's joystick conversion project, 
but luckily I found a way to do it over USB instead.  He might 
just be able to open /dev/lp0 read/write to do what he wants to 
do, though setting ioctl's and the like might be a problem.

Eventually, I imagine someone will write both pin-level and 
traditional parallel port components, but that will take someone 
who has both a need for such functionality and a familiarity 
with C or C++... and is not afraid of the Gambas API ;)

Rob