SerialPort.pb

[dhouston]

The SerialPort.pb example given with PB4.40B6 uses "stty0" for the port under Linux. This should be "ttyS0" or "ttyUSB0", etc.

[Fred]

Good one, it's corrected.

[dhouston]

Thanks, Fred.

OpenSerialPort says it will return 0 if the port cannot be opened. Will the number returned always be >=0? i.e. Can we test using if OpenSerialPort(blah,blah,etc.)>0?

[Fred]

Better test with <> 0 ( If OpenSerialPort() ). IIRC it should be positive on linux, as negative numbers are for the errorcode.

[dhouston]

Does OpenSerialPort lock the file so other apps cannot also open it?

[Fred]

I don't think so.

[santiago.barreiro]

Hello everyone

I have programming VB for as long as it exist. Although I begun with Atari, Commodor, Amiga and QBasic, definitly, PureBasic is a very different dialect of basic.

I am intending to do a simple RS232 reading that must be dump to a file with a date-time-pcname signature stamp. The file must be named simply at yyyy\mm\dd.log. But, I haven´t got there so far.

As for now, I simply want to find out the which serial ports are available... The computer has 1 physical port and 3 bluetooth serial ports, none of which shows in the following code:

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Enumeration 
#port1=1
#port2
#port3
#port4
#port5
#port6
#port7
#port8
#port9
#port10
#port11
#port12
EndEnumeration

If OpenConsole ()
iResult=IsSerialPort(#port1)
PrintN("Result("+Str(#port1)+":"+Str(iResult))
iKey$=Input()  
EndIf

But, I could not find (easily at least) how to loop for searching without reapiting the code over.. since
IsSerialPort expects a constant and not a variable.

Can some one help me with these two issues?

Regards

[Fred]

Hello, IsSerialPort() is only here to test if the PB object is initialized. There is currently no functions to natively enumerate the available port. On linux it should be easy enough to execute a commandline via RunProgram() and parse the result to get it.

[dhouston]

As for now, I simply want to find out the which serial ports are available...

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 15&t=31049

I think this is my latest version...

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;
; ------------------------------------------------------------
;
;  Enumerate Serial Ports
;
; ------------------------------------------------------------
;
EnableExplicit

#O_RDONLY   = 0
#O_WRONLY   = 1
#O_RDWR      = 2
#O_NOCTTY   = $100
#O_NONBLOCK = $800
#TIOCMGET   = $5415
#TIOCMSET   = $5418
#SET_DTR    = %000000000010    ;$002
#CLR_DTR    = %111111111101    ;~#SET_DTR

Global ports.s, Pid.s,ComPort.s
Global fd
Declare IsNumeric(some.s) 

Procedure GetAvailablePorts()
  Protected buf.s=Space(5),out.s=Space(10),dev.s,output.s,LineIn.s,found.s,key.s,bad.s
  Protected ps,dmesg,fgrep,tee,i,t,s,u,c
  ps=RunProgram("/bin/ps", "-A","",#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Read)
  fgrep=RunProgram("/bin/fgrep", "SerialTest","",#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Connect|#PB_Program_Read,ps)
  tee = RunProgram("/usr/bin/tee","PID.txt",GetCurrentDirectory(),#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Connect|#PB_Program_Read,fgrep)
  While ProgramRunning(tee)
    Pid=StringField(Trim(ReadProgramString(tee)),1," ")
  Wend 
  WaitProgram(tee)
  CloseProgram(ps):CloseProgram(tee)
  ;-----enum ports & write tty.txt-----
  DeleteFile("tty.txt")
  gtk_init_(0,0)
;  path=GetCurrentDirectory()
;  MessageRequester("PATH",path)
;  MessageRequester("App.Path",GetPathPart(ProgramFilename()))
;  path=GetPathPart(ProgramFilename())
  dmesg = RunProgram("/bin/dmesg","","",#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Read)
  fgrep = RunProgram("/bin/fgrep","tty","",#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Connect|#PB_Program_Read,Dmesg)
  tee = RunProgram("/usr/bin/tee","tty.txt",GetCurrentDirectory(),#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Connect|#PB_Program_Read,Fgrep)
  WaitProgram(tee)
  CloseProgram(Dmesg):CloseProgram(Fgrep):CloseProgram(Tee)
  ;-----parse tty.txt-----
  ports=""
  If ReadFile(0,GetCurrentDirectory()+"tty.txt")
    While Eof(0) = 0 
      LineIn=ReadString(0)+" "
      t=FindString(LineIn,"tty",1)
      If t>0
        s=FindString(LineIn," ",t)
        dev=Trim(Mid(LineIn,t,s-t))     
        If Right(dev,1)=":":dev=Left(dev,Len(dev)-1):EndIf
        If Not IsNumeric(Mid(dev,4,1))
          c=CountString(LineIn,"tty")
          If c=1      
            RunProgram("stty","-F /dev/"+dev+" 19200 cread -echo -icanon","")
            fd=open_("/dev/"+dev,#O_NONBLOCK|#O_NOCTTY|#O_RDWR,0)  
            If fd>0
              If FindString(ports,dev,1)=0
                If Len(ports):ports+",":EndIf
                ports+"/dev/"+dev
              EndIf  
              close_(fd)
            EndIf             
          ElseIf (c=2) 
            s=Val(Mid(dev,5,2))                                               ;first index
            t=FindString(LineIn,"tty",t+Len(dev))                   ;find second tty?xx
            c=Val(Mid(LineIn,t+4,2))                                       ;second index
            If (c>s)
              For i=s To c
                dev=Left(dev,4)+Str(i)       
                RunProgram("stty","-F /dev/"+dev+" 19200 cread -echo -icanon","")
                fd=open_("/dev/"+dev,#O_NONBLOCK|#O_NOCTTY|#O_RDWR,0)  
                If fd>0
                  If FindString(ports,dev,1)=0
                    If Len(ports):ports+",":EndIf
                    ports+"/dev/"+dev
                  EndIf  
                  close_(fd)
                EndIf                 
              Next
            ElseIf FindString(LineIn,"-",1)>0
              MessageRequester("Serial Port Enumeration","Unexpected dmesg format - Copy tty.txt to roZetta author"+#CRLF$+LineIn)
            EndIf
          Else
            MessageRequester("Serial Port Enumeration","Unexpected dmesg format - Copy tty.txt to roZetta author"+#CRLF$+LineIn)
          EndIf  
        EndIf
      EndIf
    Wend
    CloseFile(0)
  EndIf 
;Debug ports  
  OpenPreferences(AppPath+"serial.prf"):PreferenceGroup("port")
    WritePreferenceString("found",ports)
  ClosePreferences()  
EndProcedure

[dibor]

Hi.
Where IsNumeric procedure?
Got error "procedure has been declared but not defined"

Thank you.