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Your license remains valid after MyCommerce cancellation notice - please coordinate payment with us! UPDATE 2025-01-26: The MyCommerce platform is now defunct and we expect Digital River GmbH to cease all operations shortly. We strongly advise against any interaction with MyCommerce / Digital River. If you require assistance in clarifying your licensing or need a copy of your license key details, please contact us directly .  Original post from 2024-10-23:  Dear Docklight users,  Recent online buyers for Docklight licenses have received cancellation / refund notices from the MyCommerce software reseller we have been using until October.   The MyCommerce cancellation/refund notice Unfortunately, we are affected by what gradually turns into an international news item and a major issue for software vendors around the globe. Here are the main articles concerning the topic:   The Register - Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since...

Docklight to the rescue when the pressure is on Recently we created a demo for the fullmo MovingCap position drives and a max GmbH linear axis . Such a toothed belt axis can feature excellent repeat accuracy, if designed and manufactured with great care. To showcase this, we had a Helios Preisser digital indicator with RS232 data interface at hand. Plus a small leaflet for documentation and close to zero time for the integration. Helios Preisser distance measurement using fullmo Kickdrive and Docklight DLL Ready for the show - rapid prototyping with Docklight and Kickdrive leaves you time to relax.  The measurement gauge integration into our demo took me about an hour: Around 20 minutes of manual testing using Docklight and a standard RS232/USB adapter, and another 40 minutes for coding the integration into the actual demo UI. Docklight takes care of all the tricky parts here. The resulting demo was a Kickdrive UI Panel application. Kickdrive allows crea...

There are countless examples and resources using Docklight as a helper to "get the job done" in the Embedded world, be it for RS232, RS485, 5V / 3.3V TTL UART connections, TCP, UDP or USB HID. Let's mention a few. Integrating UART based touchscreen - Docklight to help The people at Electronics Base have recently published an extensive tutorial about setting up a sleek GUI prototype for the Nextion Intelligent Display products - LCD touchscreens with a simple UART communication link. It shows how you can create a first UI layout for the LCD module with the manufacturers toolkit within minutes, and then go ahead and use Docklight for pre-testing and simulation of the microcontroller part. Here's the post about the Nextion display  (including demo source codes and Docklight projects for download) and the Nextion tutorial video . A related product and application are the Intelligent LCD controller chips and touch screen display modules from Amulet Techno...