LPT Manager is a program that allows you to control the parallel port.
It shows the current state of every single I/O line of the port
with LEDs or, optionally, with the corresponding registries' values.
You can also interactively change the status of output lines, with a
mouse clic or writing directly a value into the registry.
Primarily developed on Linux in C, it uses the GTK+ 2 for the
GUI, but a port to the Win32 platform is available.
LPT Manager is released under the GPL.
News
20 September
2004
Released version 1.1. This version adds support for IO.DLL
as another method (now the preferred) for I/O access under WinNT.
The development is currently stopped, because I don't have
time to work on this project.
Screenshots
LPT Manager running in Linux.
Requirements
To build and run the program yourself you need the following components:
Please visit the project
page at SourceForge to download the files.
The source package is suitable for both Linux and Windows.
Version 1.1
lptmanager-1.1.tar.gz
source code
This release has not been tested
on Windows
Version 1.0
LPTManager-1.0.tar.gz
source code
LPTManager-1.0-setup.exe
win32 installer
The win32 installer contains a precompiled binary of the program and
the necessary GTK+ libraries. These libraries are the GTK+ windows port
available at http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32.
The installer has been created with Inno Setup, you can find it on http://www.innosetup.org. Note: since the WinNT platform does not allow user programs the
low-level access to I/O ports, you need to install an the DriverLINX
Port I/O Driver from http://www.driverlinx.com/DownLoad/DLPortIO.htm
if you plan to run the program under this platform using LPTManager
version 1.0. Instead LPTManager version 1.1 uses IO.DLL available at http://www.geekhideout.com/iodll.shtml.
What is left to do
Make binary packages for win32.
Remove dependancy on external libraries for low-level access to
I/O ports on WinNT.
Switch to NSIS install system for the win32 installer.
