Problems with serial communication in Labview8

[olavlind]

I am using Labview 8 on Win XP, and I am trying to communicate with a TopCCC 9018p I/O module. It is using usb and I have mapped it to com port 3. The module responds fine in Windows using a simple communication program I created in Borland Delphi. It also responds fine in the test progra downloaded from the module vendor. I just cannot get anything to/from it using Visa in Labview 8. Can anyone help me?

I have tried both traditional serial and visa, nothing works from Labview.

~Olav!

[daveTW]

Hi Olav,
first you could try the MAX-explorer, go to "devices and interfaces" (or sth. similar, mine is german), then "ports", then on your COM. there you can define port settings and open a test-panel.
The other way would be to try the "basic serial read&write.vi" from the "find examples"-window. There you can define a string to send to your device and afterwards it reads the response.
Hope this helps,
greets, Dave