Trouble at controlling LED´s by the LPT Port

[Dennis Petrasch]

Hi There !

 

I am new at this Forum. I am from Germany, and hope to find here more help as in German Forums. I can´t speak English very well, I am only 15 Years old, and had a bad English Teacher :-)

 

I am trying to solve some Problems, everthing get sometimes. I´d like to program "new" Tools and love it to try everthing :-)

 

I wantet to program an Interface. (Taffic-Lights)

 

It think this is a good basic for learning the Basics.

Note: I am using Visual Studio 2005.

 

I tried to use the following code:

 

    Public Declare Sub Out Lib "inpout32.dll"Alias "Out32" _         (ByVal PortAddress As Integer, ByVal Value As Integer)

 

I use to "execute" the code:

 

Out(&H378, 1) ' H378 for the LTP Port, 1 for the First Pin

 

But it will not work. I searched all the Web, and talked to a good friend, but we cant find a solution.

 

My Hope: You :-)

 

Maybe you know a good .dll, or Code to use it with. I waitet so long for my LED and so on, i dont want to wait very long :-)

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Dennis Petrasch

[Derek Stone]

What exactly didn't work? Was an exception thrown? Did the lights not behave "correctly"?