RE: Serial worker thread help

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=?Utf-8?B?VmljdG9y?= <Victor@discussions.microsoft.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:20:07 -0700

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<A0268A61-E19C-492F-8031-B9C7FFC43B68@microsoft.com>

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