installing plugin

[Ron]

Sounds like you have an old windows version.

* Updated your directx library
* Update your MFC libraries.

Both can be found at the microsoft site.

[vynce]

To get the logger plugin to work with Girder you need use the right version of the plugin with the right version of Girder :). It looks like you are trying to use the Logger plugin for Girder 3.2 with Girder 3.0 - these are incompatible with each other. So you can either upgrade to Girder 3.2 and the Logger plugin for Girder 3.2 (all Girder 3.2 stuff is available here: http://www.girder.nl/downloadn.php) - this is the recommended choice. Or you can get the older version of the logger plugin for Girder 3.0 here: http://www.girder.nl/download.php (all Girder 3.0/3.1 stuff). You just need to make sure that you are using plugins compatible with the version of Girder that you are using.

[cconroy]

I'm very new at this and I have no programming experience, please be patient with me.
I'm trying to mointor a serial port dedicated to giving me one piece of information. I have a switch accross pins #7 and 8 on a 25 pin connector on a serial port and would like to log that infomation to a stop watch.
The first thing I thought I should do is to use the logger plugin to identify the address, but I have be unable to get the logger plugin to install.
My first problem is that when I start girder I get a error message saying Invalid dll in dir!:logger.dll.
I have tried putting the logger dll in various dirs..Girder and subdir plugins and hardware, but I always get the same error message when I start the program.
I have Girder ver.3.0.24 and I'm running Windows98se.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chuck Conroy

[cconroy]

I am using Girder 3.0.24
There must be something very basic I'm doing wrong. I went to the download page for the girder 3.0 plugins and downloaded the plugins for the generic serial interface and for the joystick interface. I get a error message when I start Girder "c:\girder\plugins\hardware\joystick.dll and then another one for the serial dll.
I have the joystick and the serial dll's in the above dir and that is the dir in the Girder setup
Can someone help me?
Thanks,
Chuck Conroy

[cconroy]

I would like to thank Vynce and Ronb for your helpful replies.
I down loaded the 3.0 versions of the plugins as Vynce suggested and Directx 8.1 as Ronb suggested. I was unable to find any MFC update files at Microsoft, I searched the site but didn't find them.
After installing Directx 8.1 I was able to get the joystick plugin to install correctly (I think), however I still couldn't get the serial plugin to work.
My main goal here is to get a signal into my pc from a joystick or serial port. This signal for the joystick for instance would consist of putting a switch accross pins 4 and 14 thereby sending some sort of signal that Girder could detect. Then I would hope to send a F2 keystroke signal to a stopwatch timer program that I have in order to log the time interval of the switch closure.
Will this work with Girder?
Am I even on the right track?
What kind of signal should I be looking for from the joystick port?
I down loaded the logger plugin for Girder 3.0 hoping to be able to see the input from the joystick. but it doesn't seem to work for me either.
Once again any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chuck Conroy

[cconroy]

Thanks to those who helped. I got it working!!
This let me monitor the rotation of my electrical meter thru my joystick port to a stopwatch which writes the data to a file.
Chuck Conroy