Thanks Arthur,

    Your reply #5 solved the problem. My misunderstanding was mainly in the parser. Now I see how that goes together.

    I had trouble after the changes because I did not restart the service. Evidently, the configuration changes stored in the registry are picked up on starting the ASDL service.

    We have success. I will expand on this myself and thanks again for your assistance.
    We have now purchased the pro version of ASDL.

Thanks,
I did put my data strings in there.

I will return at 0630 GMT when my next shift starts and I will try the DDE.
I'll report the result. Hoping you are there that early.

There is still no response. The test button on the sound file definition works, so the speaker, etc. is working.

What about the page "Query Parse Filter" ?
I set Data Query mode:  none
Parser module: ASCII data query & parser (default.dll)
Parse & Export for sent: no
Parse & Export for received: yes



Is there any way to see what the intermediate steps produce? How do you step-wise debug this thing?

OK, now I have installed ASDL.
I don't see any success in my objective, which is to play a particular sound when a particular text string is discovered in the received data.

I want to play different sound files on the occurrence of  "text type 1" or "text type 2" when the received data is in the form:
Date/Time dddddddddddddd  text type 1<CR><LF>
Date/Time dddddddddddddd  text type 2<CR><LF>


How is the query/parse filter used to identify the desired text?
I am not using any process to work with the parsed data; I just want the sound.

Once the data is isolated and the trigger is produced, how is the Events handling module used to execute the playing of the sound?  What is the form of the trigger for the Events handling module?

Thanks,
I will install ASDL and see what I can do with that.

I am using the trial serial printer logger.
I am successfully logging printer data.
I am successfully displaying printer data.

I need to activate a sound on detection of various text strings in the printer data.
I have tried to set the filter for the events.dll to play sound on detection, but without success.
Can you give me the steps to configure this functionality?

Thanks for your help.