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4.3. Opening Serial and Wireless Gloves
4.3.1 Scanning for Gloves
Clicking the
button in the setup tab window causes GloveManager to
scan the COM ports for available gloves. This is useful if you do not know on
which COM port your glove is connected to, or you simply want to scan for
available gloves. Once the COM port scan is complete the COM port tree will be
updated to show available gloves.
Figure 6 – Result of the Port Scan
As can be seen in Figure 6, the Port Scan has found two wireless gloves on
COM1. The right hand glove is plugged into Port A of the wireless transmitter
unit. The left hand glove is plugged into Port B.
4.3.2 Opening Gloves
A glove may by opened by clicking the
button after a COM port has
been selected in the COM port tree.
Figure 7 – Selecting the First Glove to be Opened
If the glove has been successfully opened the tab window will automatically
switch to the newly opened glove, as shown in Figure 8. Double-clicking on a
COM port will also cause GloveManager to attempt to open a glove on that
COM port.