SerialEx - an "improved" Serial2 library

[mjcoon]

Hi Andrew, I am returning to battle with the problems I was having with binary serial data acquisition last year (now having retired...).

So am delighted to find this library that may enable me to overcome my problem that could have been Ctrl-Z related.

BTW the "Help" with this library mentions Ctl-Z four times and each time gives its value as 0x0a whereas I'm sure it is 0x1a as given in the separate discussion.

Also, a plea: could the "Help" give the default values of the properties, espcially the new SerialEx ones? The we can avoid cluttering code with default settings that are spurious.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by mjcoon

BTW the "Help" with this library mentions Ctl-Z four times and each time gives its value as 0x0a whereas I'm sure it is 0x1a as given in the separate discussion.

Yes it is. The perils of cut and paste multiplying an original typo

could the "Help" give the default values of the properties, espcially the new SerialEx ones?

Aren't the defaults detailed in the descriptions of New1 and New2 sufficient?

[mjcoon]

Originally Posted by agraham

Aren't the defaults detailed in the descriptions of New1 and New2 sufficient?

Hi again Andrew; I think the answer must be "almost"! Really, I think I should be able to guess the default values of: EnableOnComm (True); EnableOnEof (True because this was the old behaviour); EnableOnPinChanged (False because it is new behavour); EnableOnPinChanged (False because it is new behavour).

Best regards, Mike.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by mjcoon

I think I should be able to guess the default values

I assume you meant EnableOnError instead of one of the EnablePinChangeds. You could always read them back instead of guessing - but in fact they are all False .

Your reasoning is sound except that as Serial2.dll defaults to EnableOnComm = False I made SerialEx the same. I didn't set EnableOnEof = True as I didn't want to automatically enable the deviant behaviour which was the reason for this new library. I wanted to be able drop SerialEx into a problematic Serial2 app without changing any code and for it to just work.

[Sinager]

Originally Posted by agraham

I produced this library to overcome a few shortcomings with the Serial2 library

thank you, this saved my project as Serial2 was translating into "?"s a number of different characters making incoming strings unusable

[Zenerdiode]

SerialEx.GetPorts on the Desktop reports some of my ports with the suffix "i". Why is this?

Ports 4,5,6, & 7 in this case.

[agraham]

I've no idea. What GetPorts gives you is the array of serial port names that the .NET SerialPort class returns.