Re: use WriteFile to send buffer to COMM port error! --Urgent help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:37:29 -0800
Message-ID:
<OoW2UadVHHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Carefully check your memset(lpOutBuffer) arguments. Then think why you even
need it. Then think of benefits of 'sizeof'.

"ja" <josndrsn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:u6XdpGcVHHA.5068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Hi,all
   I want to write a char buffer to COM1 port, I write the code as below:

 //Step1 : open & init COM1 port
 hCom=CreateFile("COM1", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL,
OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL|FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, NULL);
if(hCom==(HANDLE)-1)
{
 AfxMessageBox("Failed To Open COM1!");
 return FALSE;
}

SetupComm(hCom,1024,512);
COMMTIMEOUTS TimeOuts;

TimeOuts.ReadIntervalTimeout=MAXDWORD;
TimeOuts.ReadTotalTimeoutMultiplier=0;
TimeOuts.ReadTotalTimeoutConstant=0;
TimeOuts.WriteTotalTimeoutMultiplier=100;
TimeOuts.WriteTotalTimeoutConstant=500;
SetCommTimeouts(hCom,&TimeOuts);

DCB dcb;
GetCommState(hCom,&dcb);
dcb.BaudRate=2400;
dcb.ByteSize=8;
dcb.Parity=NOPARITY;
dcb.StopBits=1;
SetCommState(hCom,&dcb);

PurgeComm(hCom,PURGE_TXCLEAR|PURGE_RXCLEAR);

//Step 2: Send buffer to COM1 port
OVERLAPPED m_osWrite;
memset(&m_osWrite,0,sizeof(OVERLAPPED));
m_osWrite.hEvent=CreateEvent(NULL,TRUE,FALSE,NULL);

char lpOutBuffer[12];
memset(lpOutBuffer,'\0',16);
lpOutBuffer[0]=0x00;
lpOutBuffer[1]=0x00;
lpOutBuffer[2]=0x00;
lpOutBuffer[3]=0x00;
lpOutBuffer[4]=0x5F;
lpOutBuffer[5]=0x5F;
lpOutBuffer[6]=0x50;
lpOutBuffer[7]=0x50;
lpOutBuffer[8]=0x01;
lpOutBuffer[9]=0xA1;
lpOutBuffer[10]=0x8F;
lpOutBuffer[11]=0x8F;

DWORD dwBytesToWrite=12;
DWORD dwBytesWritten;
COMSTAT ComStat;
DWORD dwErrorFlags;
BOOL bWriteStat;
ClearCommError(hCom,&dwErrorFlags,&ComStat);
bWriteStat=WriteFile(hCom,lpOutBuffer,dwBytesToWrite,&
dwBytesWritten,&m_osWrite);

if(!bWriteStat)
{
 if(GetLastError()==ERROR_IO_PENDING)
 {
  WaitForSingleObject(m_osWrite.hEvent,1000 );
 }
}

I use COM1 to send buffer and COM2 to receive buffer, the COM1 & COM2
setting are the same, but after I sent the buffer , I receive 15 bytes
from COM2 and the bytes content are different from those I sent from COM1,
could anybody tell me why?

Any helpful ideas would be highly appreciated!

-ja

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