Help Me!!! with an LED display

[Jordan.Hickin]

Please help me. i have a 5 digit 7 segment display... (888.88) and i need it to respond to a text box number.. so if i enter 5.69 the 7 segment display shows 5.69... problem is i dont have a clue where to start with this.

it needs to update itself according to what the textbox (or preferably label) shows.. yet i cnt get an array up and running and i dont know how to get vb to read the number in the textbox and seperate it across the 5 digit display.

Please help me

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[Keith]

Welcome to the forum Jordan.

Please help me. i have a 5 digit 7 segment display... (888.88) and i need it to respond to a text box number.. so if i enter 5.69 the 7 segment display shows 5.69... problem is i dont have a clue where to start with this.

it needs to update itself according to what the textbox (or preferably label) shows.. yet i cnt get an array up and running and i dont know how to get vb to read the number in the textbox and seperate it across the 5 digit display.

Well there are a number of ways to do this, there are a few on PSC if you do a search.

LED Display

An LED Marquee/Label

Analog LED Clock/Calendar with Invisibility

LEDBULB.zip

Visual Basic DigitBox OCX

You can add all the icons into an ImageList and Index them. When yoiu want that number you just call that Index to show the number.

What have you tried at the moment?

I've moved this thread from Ask Us Anything.

[CDRIVE]

I know that this is an old post and OP seems to have abandoned it. Just for the record and if someone else stumbles across this post...

The Parallel port can handle this job almost directly, though I'm no expert with it.
The Serial Port, through MSComm, can also do this job but not directly. You will need a few common chips to interface it. I do have passing familiarity with the Serial Port.