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I'm implementing TCP Modbus protrocol with TCPSocket and I need to send a byte stream to a remote device. The only statement I know in order to do that is Write , that has an string argument.
I think that native string format is 16 bits per char, and I don't know what will hapen if I convert the byte stream to a string concatenating it (chr(byte(0))+chr(byte(1))+...) and sending with socket.write

In VB, SendData statement accept a byte array as argument.
Can I do that encoding with chrB and decoding with ascB and midB?

Thanks in advance.

RB "native" strings are UTF-8 encoded, which means that characters can be 1-4 bytes wide. Values less than 127 are always single bytes. The "B" versions - chrb, ascb, midb - are all single byte operations, so you can use chrb(0) thru chrb(255) and be assured of a single byte. That will give you a string suitable for socket.write operations.

I'm trying it. Thanks a lot.
Regards.

jcgarrido: did you ever get your Modbus TCP routines working (as a Master)? I have a RealBasic project where I need to use Modbus TCP to communicate with two sets of DIN rail mounted counters and digital outputs. I would be willing to purchase the code from you if available (hate reinventing the wheel).

thank you,
--- Brad Bennett

Im going to take a look on the net...believe I've come across an open source modbus implementation...

You could always call some python from within your RB apps

http://code.google.com/p/modbus-tk/