Pole Display Programming

[Randy]

Who knows how to program Pole Display?
Only some of the screen information (total order) will be
displayed on the pole display, so the buyer could see the
total amount.
Thank you for your help.
Randy.

 

[John Vinson]

Who knows how to program Pole Display?
Only some of the screen information (total order) will be
displayed on the pole display, so the buyer could see the
total amount.
Thank you for your help.
Randy.

Again, Randy...

You're assuming that we're next to you looking over your shoulder. I'm
in my home office in rural Idaho; I'm not looking over your shoulder.
I have NO idea what your computer is supposed to do. Where does this
"pole display" get its information? How does the buyer enter data?
What choices does the buyer have? What does the buyer need to see?

It is perfectly legitimate to post a 100-line description of your
problem (you may want to put LONG: in the subject line as a warning
and you may lose some volunteers). But please provide enough context
and background that someone who *isn't* a co-worker can determine what
you want.

That said...

Your display should be based on a Query; a total can be calculated by
putting a textbox on the Footer of a form with a control source like

=Sum([some-field-name])

 

[Randy]

-----Original Message-----

Who knows how to program Pole Display?
Only some of the screen information (total order) will be
displayed on the pole display, so the buyer could see the
total amount.
Thank you for your help.
Randy.

Again, Randy...

You're assuming that we're next to you looking over your shoulder. I'm
in my home office in rural Idaho; I'm not looking over your shoulder.
I have NO idea what your computer is supposed to do. Where does this
"pole display" get its information? How does the buyer enter data?
What choices does the buyer have? What does the buyer need to see?

It is perfectly legitimate to post a 100-line description of your
problem (you may want to put LONG: in the subject line as a warning
and you may lose some volunteers). But please provide enough context
and background that someone who *isn't* a co-worker can determine what
you want.

That said...

Your display should be based on a Query; a total can be calculated by
putting a textbox on the Footer of a form with a control source like

=Sum([some-field-name])


.

Thank you John.
What I'm trying to do is to make cashier program, where
the computer connected to monitor, COMM1 for Cashier
printer and a Pole display in COMM2.
Pole display acts NOT as dummy printer.
When the transaction committed, the agreed amount will be
displayed on the Pole Display.
I have no difficulty on programming but have a problem how
to send data to pole display.
Thank you again,
Firman

 

[John Vinson]

What I'm trying to do is to make cashier program, where
the computer connected to monitor, COMM1 for Cashier
printer and a Pole display in COMM2.

I think we may be talking past each other, Randy.

Is your program implemented in the Office Pro program, Microsoft
Access? Or in some other language? This newsgroup is for users of
Access, and I'm beginning to suspect that you're talking about
something else!

Access does not have (straightforward) access to COMM ports, and I've
never heard of using a COMM port to connect to a monitor in any case.

 

[Randy]

Thanks John,
I'm confuse how to explain my problem at the beginning but
by the time I realise that this is a communication to COM
by an Access program.
Randy.

 

[M.L. Sco Scofield]

Take a look at http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/serialport.htm

Sco