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I was asked to make a program which rang a bell at certain at certain moments. The one way i can think of making it is by using a loop, but i should try to avoid using it and i don't have any idea. I thought of looping, and when the time matched with the specified one, it rang the bell. I do not have it clear how to make it ring. They told me that i had to think of how to develop the program and they would think of how to make the bell ring when i returned 1 or 0. This is the thing: if main() returns any number, the program finishes...!
Any ideas...??? Help is really much appreciated
Apr 11 '07
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JosAH
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The bell is not what i should worry about, it should be conected to the parallel port, then i'll tell the other people which cable(s) will be returning the 1.
I should make a program which does everything, i mean that i should have to open the program and the program would do everything for me. That means not needing to use windows xp scheduler, at least not manually. Thanks for your help. Please ask for clarification if there's something i forgot to write.
Well, if that is the point instead, reread Banfa's reply #6.

kind regards,

Jos
Apr 18 '07 #11
Banfa
9,065 Recognized Expert Moderator Expert
The bell is not what i should worry about, it should be conected to the parallel port, then i'll tell the other people which cable(s) will be returning the 1.
I should make a program which does everything, i mean that i should have to open the program and the program would do everything for me. That means not needing to use windows xp scheduler, at least not manually. Thanks for your help. Please ask for clarification if there's something i forgot to write.
You do realise that it has taken 10 messages in this thread for you to even get to the point of mentioning the parallel port. This would have moved along more quickly if you had mentioned this in the first place instead of making us try and tease the information out of you.

I suggest that you read this which has much to say on the subject of using the parallel port as a control port.
Apr 18 '07 #12
bluesteel
84 New Member
You do realise that it has taken 10 messages in this thread for you to even get to the point of mentioning the parallel port. This would have moved along more quickly if you had mentioned this in the first place instead of making us try and tease the information out of you.

I suggest that you read [url=http://www.epanorama.n et/circuits/parallel_output .html#windowspr ogramming]this[url] which has much to say on the subject of using the parallel port as a control port.
Thanks! I guess this website will be enough!
Apr 18 '07 #13

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