I wanted to get the data directly from COM4 if possible. I'm guessing it would output some kind of string with latitude and longitude somewhere in it.

I would want to extract that and store it in an object, then use the data from there.


I'm wondering if there is a way to call the port with WMI, or if ActiveX or extra software is needed.

The GPS data is usually quite easy to interpret (Google: NMEA), it's getting the data from the COM port into DX that's the tricky part.

I don't know if DX supports interfacing with the hardware directly... Or does DX support DLL calls? If so then you might be able to get hold of a serial port DLL that DX can call routines out of to get hold of the data from the GPS.

Failing that, you'd need to find/write a small executable to do the same thing which can be called from DX.