Byte format sending in Serial Port Class

[ajorge]

Good Morning!

I'm trying to send a few bytes through my serial port into a remote system, but i'm having a problem... Suposing that i'm trying to send the array of bytes:

68, 00, 00, 68, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 00, 01, 81, 00, 16

How to define this array?

Like this?

dim btArray as byte() = { &H68,&H00, &H00, &H68, &H00, &H00, &H00, &H00, &H80, &H00, &H01, &H81, &H00, &H16 }

I've made a test and i saw that &HA = 10 ..., so this is not the way i want this to work. What's the way to get the correct convertion?

Best regards.

[joedeene]

I think you can just insert those numbers in the curly brackets and they are your bytes, in c# it would be like this:

byte[] mybytes = new byte[] { 68, 00, 00, 68, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 00, 01, 81, 00, 16 };

I think you can do something like that? Try that and let me know if it doesn't work.

joedeene

[Plater]

The &H in VB means the followin number is in hex, you appear to want decimals, so just go as joedeene suggested and enter them as:
{ 68, 00, 00, 68, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 00, 01, 81, 00, 16 }

[ajorge]

Hi Joe!

I've tryed to do what you've told. But there's a problem! Suppose that we put a byte AF inside this array... After compiling the code, is giving an error and don't let me to do what i want.

The main objective is to guarantee that this sequence reaches the remote system:

{01101000, 00000000, 00000000, 01101000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 10000000, 00000000, 00000001, 10000001, 00000000, 00010110}

I think you can just insert those numbers in the curly brackets and they are your bytes, in c# it would be like this:

byte[] mybytes = new byte[] { 68, 00, 00, 68, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 00, 01, 81, 00, 16 };

I think you can do something like that? Try that and let me know if it doesn't work.

joedeene

[Plater]

Well "AF" would be a HEX value so you would want to use the &h for those values.

10 is 10
0x10 is 16