Have you concidered AutoCAD !
It has a VB interface which lets you develop programs that can interact with the drawing interface and that has all the usual powers of the VBA platform.
So, using VB, you could read the file (what-ever it's format is), do any calculations on it and even plot a...
I do give AutoCAD courses myself (20 years of experience with the rig)....
I'm in the Montreal region....
Interested, let me know.
Marcel
Ruinbab
jcema@rocketmail.com
The serial port demands, by it's conception, some circuitery added to the footswitch like outlined by "tombihn" in the previous answer. The circuit must be composed of a UART chip or at minimal a driver chip to support the + 0 - voltage scheme of the RS-232.
What I'd suggest is to...
