Re: Serial worker thread help

From:
"Victor" <nijegorodov.otpusk@freenet.de>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:04:56 +0200
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See below...

"Kahlua" <edward.frederick@verizon.net> wrote in message
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On Aug 15, 1:20 pm, Victor <Vic...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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.

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Unfortunatly to me Joe's code seems to be much larger than the minimum
needed and dificult to understand.
**************
No, it is neither "much larger than..." nor "dificult to understand".
It is very simple, it contains comments and it works!

*********************
Port is simply the handle to the COM-DRV++ comport functions.
********************
No, it is NOT a "handle", becuase handle is not any class member and thus it
cannot have any methods.

********************
I looking at my code snippet you cannot tell what "Port" is then you
dont need to answer.
********************
Ok, it will be my last aswer in this thread.

********************
The snippet is only the thread that checks if char came in serial
port.
********************
So does it use ReadFile API or some other technique?

And finally: you asked:

*********************
.... This worked fine until I needed it to work under Vista.
.....
I need to know how to change this to the ReadFile() method
*********************
Joe's code does work. If you think it should be 2-5 lines shorter - just
remove some comments.
If you think that only very very short code may work correctly - then
rethink.

Good luck,
Victor

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