Thanks Louis... I'm studying the code right now. -Soong
----- Original Message ---- From: Louis Demers <louisdem...@mac.com> To: Oftenwrong Soong <oftenwrongso...@yahoo.com> Sent: Thu, October 15, 2009 5:58:02 PM Subject: Re: Serial comm in Cocoa? I use 2 C routines I found on the net and adapted. Here is some code I use, quickly ripped out of one of my app, i.e. not re-tested. On 15-Oct-09, at 20:12 , Oftenwrong Soong wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the Cocoa-fied way to communicate via a serial port? > > Using a kext to support the Prolific PL2303 chip and a shell utility like cu, > it is possible to communicate via many USB-based serial ports. (For those who > need it, the kext is at sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303.) I am writing a > Cocoa app that needs to communicate interactively with a device using an > in-house message protocol, as opposed to just sending a file across a link. > (If it were the latter case, I would just spawn a process using NSTask and > send the file across.) > > I have written such an app under Windows before. In the .NET framework, there > is a class SerialPort that makes it easy. You can do everything, including > set the baud rate, parity, data bits, stop bits, etc. > > I hope there is something similar in Cocoa (but I couldn't find it). > > Thanks all, > Soong > > ps, Since I mentioned the kext, I'd like to point out that if you use VMware > Fusion, it is my experience that while this kext is loaded, a virtual machine > cannot connect to the serial port. In this case, I unload the kext using > kextunload, and then it works fine. There was a discussion about this at > http://communities.vmware.com/message/1073355. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/louisdemers%40mac.com > > This email sent to louisdem...@mac.com Louis Demers eng. www.obzerv.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
