Re: Serial thread continued
1. You need to use overlapped I/O.
2. Make sure to check return codes from ReadFile.
"Kahlua" <edward.frederick@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Below is my Serial thread:
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UINT SerialThread( LPVOID Param ) //Thread to monitor serial activity
{
char ed[10]; //for testing only
unsigned char chread;
DWORD dwRead;
DWORD dwEventMask;
if(!SetCommMask(hCom, EV_RXCHAR))
AfxMessageBox("Error setting ComMask");
if(WaitCommEvent(hCom, &dwEventMask, NULL)){
ReadFile (hCom, &chread, 1, &dwRead, NULL);
_itoa(chread, ed, 16); //for testing only
AfxMessageBox(ed); //for testing only
}
return TRUE;
}
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hCom is the comport handle.
chread is the byte returned.
The following 2 lines are only there to see what char was returned.
They will NOT be in the final routine.....
_itoa(chread, ed, 16);
AfxMessageBox(ed);
The routine does respond and the messagebox shows the byte that came
in.
BUT, the byte is not what was sent!
Any ideas??
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