Serial Instrument issue in C++ builder! Help!

[Terry_loh]

Recently, I tried to do a project about RS485. My software development tool was C++ builder. And I met one problem. That was I received the return data as byte array. But I don't know how to transfer the CWSerial->Read() data to a right format. I can not see the right data. I don't know whether someone had ever done the project by C++ builder. Hope you can give me a big hand! If there was an example, that would be better. Thank you very much!

[Glenn Burnside]

Terry, this looks identical to the question you posted here. Have you tried setting the DataAsString property on the CWserial object to false? From the MeasurementStudio documentation, "If this property is True, data is returned as a string. If this property is False, data is returned as an array of bytes. The default value is True."

[Terry_loh]

Thank you! I have settled the problem.
I'd like to share my experience to all.
If you wanna send the binary data, you send directly.
Example, send ASCII "A", the binary data was 65. Then I can program
int b;
b=65;
CWSerial1->Write(b);
If you wanna send more, I use the fool method.
int b,c,d;
b=65;
c=89;
d=255;
CWSerial1->Write(b);
CWSerial1->write(c);
CWSerial1->write(255);
If you wanna receive the data as binary. We need to use two method of Variant.
Variant receive;
unsigned int buff[4];
int count;
int i;
receive=CWSerial->Read();
count=receive.arrayHighBound(1);
for(i=0;i<=count;i++)
{
buff[i]=receive.GetElement(i);
}

Then you can see the return data in buff[4] array. This is my experience, I hope I can help other people in the future.

Regards!
Terry