AP Basic RS-232 Failure

Created on 2010-07-28 18:48:00

If you have recently upgraded your PC operating system or have installed or uninstalled certain software, the RS-232 support in AP Basic may have been corrupted.  The following error message is produced when this occurs:

"Communications control MScomm32.ocx could not be loaded."

Extract “MSCOMM32.OCX” from the linked .zip file download below, and place it into the “C:WINDOWSsystem32” folder. Then go to the Start Menu, select Run... , and copy the following into the dialog box:

regsvr32 C:WINDOWSsystem32MSCOMM32.ocx

After you press OK, you should get a dialog that indicates that the OCX registration was successful.

Now, AP Basic macros using RS-232 commands should be working properly.


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MSCOMM32.zip