Target:
The class is not intended to use as a baseclass for modemcommunication but more for driving hardware or reading hardware via the serial port.From the classes included there is only one class important: CSerialPort. The other classes are only there to illustrate the use of this class.
Usage:
In your software you only need to create an instance of the CSerialPort class and call InitPort.
- // the owner (CWnd) of the port (receives message)
- BOOL CSerialPort::InitPort(CWnd* pPortOwner,
- UINT portnr, // portnumber (1..4)
- UINT baud, // baudrate
- char parity, // parity
- UINT databits, // databits
- UINT stopbits, // stopbits
- DWORD dwCommEvents, // EV_RXCHAR, EV_CTS etc
- UINT writebuffersize) // size of the writebuffer
The dwCommEvents flag can be used for communication with the owner of this class.
The flags can be one of the following (or combined with |):
- WM_COMM_BREAK_DETECTED A break was detected on input.
- WM_COMM_CTS_DETECTED The CTS (clear-to-send) signal changed state.
- WM_COMM_DSR_DETECTED The DSR (data-set-ready) signal changed state.
- WM_COMM_ERR_DETECTED A line-status error occurred. Line-status errors are CE_FRAME, CE_OVERRUN, and CE_RXPARITY.
- WM_COMM_RING_DETECTED A ring indicator was detected.
- WM_COMM_RLSD_DETECTED The RLSD (receive-line-signal-detect) signal changed state.
- WM_COMM_RXCHAR A character was received and placed in the input buffer.
- WM_COMM_RXFLAG_DETECTED The event character was received and placed in the input buffer.
Accept the first parameter all parameters are optional. The standard values are:
- portnr = 1
- baud = 19200
- parity = 'N'
- databits = 8,
- stopsbits = 1,
- dwCommEvents = EV_RXCHAR | EV_CTS,
- nBufferSize = 512);
So the follwing code is enough to make communication possible:
in the header of the owner:
- CSerialPort m_Serial;
in the code:
- m_Serial.InitPort(this);
- m_Serial.StartMonitoring();
Then the tread that watches the port is started and all events on the port are send to the owner. The receive a character the owner needs a messageentry in the messagemap:
and they must be handled:
- BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CCommtestDlg, CDialog)
- //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CCommtestDlg)
- ON_MESSAGE(WM_COMM_RXCHAR, OnCommunication)
- ON_MESSAGE(WM_COMM_CTS_DETECTED, OnCTSDetected)
- //}}AFX_MSG_MAP
- END_MESSAGE_MAP()
- LONG CCommtestDlg::OnCommunication(WPARAM ch, LPARAM port)
- {
- // do something with the received character
- return 0;
- }
This is it for reading. Writing can be done with WriteChar or WriteToPort
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