The Florida Probe Hardware SDK is aimed towards developers who are interested in integrating Florida Probe hardware functionality into their own applications.

For releases after 2.0, the FPCDLL library is no longer included, nor are the sample programs or documentation that went along with it.  The FPCDLL files have only been changed slightly since the last release to allow UNICODE compiling. 

About FPCDrv   

The FPCDrv ActiveX component provides a quick and easy way to add support to an application running in a Win32 environment.  The control can be embedded into any application which is an ActiveX control container.  The  control can be embedded into applications which allow controls to be added at runtime, such as the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, etc.   This versatility makes it much easier for custom office solutions to take advantage of the Florida Probe hardware.   Also included are several sample programs using  the new ActiveX component interface.  The ActiveX control has had several incompatible  changes since the 1.1 version.  Versions following 2.0 will  have the same interface as version 2.0, or an interface that is backwards-compatible.

A list of changes between this and the previous versions can be found here. 

Components   

FPCDRV - This directory holds the source for the 32-bit ActiveX control for the Florida Probe  hardware (FPCDrv.ocx) 

Examples   

Please note that these samples are not yet finished or overly documented.

demopage.htm - A webpage for Internet Explorer  and any other browser that can use ActiveX controls. 

 Visual Basic 'Panel App' - Displays a large graphical panel that shows the current depth, last footswitch depth, and a hight bar showing the proportional depth. Also a progress bar shows the proportional depth below the Control's built-in graph. 

Visual Basic 'Hidden Control' - Shows off nearly all  the new features to Visual Basic programmers. The  control is hidden when the program is run. New  features present that were not in older examples are  a probe identification button, an "Update Rate" settings bar, and text boxes that are updated by both the old polling method and the new event-driven methods. 

Visual C++ 'Installer' - A MFC application that shows  the control along with its graphic in a window. This  will eventually become the user 'driver install/hardware test' application when 2.0 is finished. 

Visual C++ 'sample' - A MFC application that hides the dialog. Fields are bound to the control by its events, and buttons trigger various procedures. This application aims to be an equivalent of the Visual Basic 'Hidden Control' sample. 

Visual C++ 'sample3' - An interesting MFC application that not only does not show the control,  but does not have it as a member of the dialog box.  Shows how to call the CFPCDrv classes created by Visual C++ directly, and how to create an Event Sink with MFC.