RE: Serial worker thread help
I have no idea what *port* and its methods in that code snippet are and do,
but I'd recommend you to implement the code from Joe Newcomer's essay
""Serial Port I/O": http://flounder.com/serial.htm
Victor
"Kahlua" wrote:
I have a serial worker thread that works with COM-DRV++(serial
wrapper) below.
This worked fine until I needed it to work under Vista.
I have switched to the CreateFile(), ReadFile(), WriteFile() methods.
UINT SerialThread( LPVOID Param ) //Thread to monitor serial activity
{
HWND hDlg = (HWND)Param;
int DataByte=0x00;
int Count=0;
int i;
while(TRUE){
Count=0;
while(Count == 0){
Count = Port.BytesInReceiveBuffer();
Sleep(50);
}
DataByte=Port.GetByte(18);
if (DataByte == 0x10){
for (i=0; i<33; i++){
DataByte=Port.GetByte(18);
Bar[i]=(DataByte & 0xff);
}
}
::PostMessage(hDlg, MY_SERIAL, (WPARAM)0, (LPARAM)0);
}
return TRUE;
}
When the char 10h is received it then gets 33 more chars (all 8bit).
I need to know how to change this to the ReadFile() method.
Thanks
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