Upgrade for Windows data collection package

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 28, 2004

WinWedge is an easy-to-use data collection program designed for interfacing RS232 (and TCP/IP) devices to any Windows application.

TAL Technologies has released WinWedge Pro v3.1.

WinWedge is an easy to use data collection program designed for interfacing RS232 (and TCP/IP) devices such as data collection equipment, laboratory instruments, balances, pH meters, moisture analysers, micrometers, flow meters, temperature sensors, barcode scanners, GPS receivers and other serial output devices, to any Windows application.

WinWedge inputs real-time serial data directly into Excel, Access, LIMS, MMIs, statistical software or any other Windows software.

Use WinWedge to easily perform real-time analysis, charting, and graphing of serial data in PC applications.

Different instruments can simultaneously send data to different applications or to different "fields" within the same application.

Two of the most useful improvements are in the WinWedge "analyse" window.

The "analyse" window lets users easily identify and analyse the structure of their incoming serial data.

Users can now open the analyse window in WinWedge and leave it open while they are defining the structure of their input data.

Users can also resize the analyse window so that they can see much more data and therefore reduce or eliminate the need to scroll through data that appear in the input buffer textbox in the analyse window.

When WinWedge, TCP-Wedge and File-Wedge (both included free with WinWedge) are configured to send data to other programs as "keystrokes", users can define additional keystrokes and/or date and time stamps to be sent to the target application along with the data.

Normally additional keystrokes are used to navigate around in the target application or cause the target application to perform some operation on the data that are fed to it.

In some situations the target application may need some time to process the data that you are sending to it.

To accommodate this, a new "delay" function has been added to WinWedge, TCP-Wedge and File-Wedge.

Users can specify the delay function in the "record preamble keystrokes" or the "field postamble keystrokes" that they define in the Wedge.

In all previous versions of WinWedge its windows would minimise to the Windows taskbar.

In version 3.1, the windows will now minimise to the system tray (the small section on the far right side of the Windows taskbar).

Another new feature is the ability to use WinWedge with DOS application programs or other Windows applications that do not respond to keyboard input in a normal manner.

WinWedge, TCP-Wedge and File-Wedge all now have a special "/K" command line argument that can be used to switch the way that it works internally when sending keystrokes to another program so that it will work with DOS programs.

Anyone who already owns a copy of WinWedge Pro 3.0c can upgrade for free.

For owners of any previous version of WinWedge Pro, the upgrade cost is just $159.00.

As with all TALtech software, WinWedge Pro v3.1 comes with free and unlimited technical support and a risk-free 90-day money-back guarantee.