Yes you were right, even if I still receive some bizz caracter, I can now see
the string I send through the buffer...
Thanx a lot
"Fitzpatrick, Joe" wrote:
> Your case 0 looks pretty dubious. Normally, if SerReceiveWait does not
> return an error, you do something like:
>
> SerReceiveCheck( serRefNum, &numBytes ); // find out how many
> characters in receive queue
> if (numBytes) // Receive
> the bytes into our buffer
> SerReceive( serRefNum, respBufP, numBytes, 0, &err );
>
> It is important to remember that, at this point, they are individual bytes,
> not null terminated strings. Also, you may not get a whole message/string
> at one go. The string is asynchronously received via interrupts.
>
> Good Luck,
> -jjf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Ouellet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:50 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Serial Weirdness
>
> Ok Im doing this to receive a couple of string via Serial Modem
> connection
>
> do
> {
> RecepErr = SerReceiveWait(NumRef, 1, -1);
> switch(RecepErr)
> {
> case 0:
> {
> StrCopy(strRBuff, InBuff);
> ScanComm(InBuff);
> break;
> }
> case serErrTimeOut:
> {
> return false;
> break;
> }
> case serErrLineErr:
> {
> return false;
> break;
> }
> }
> }
> while(TransmissionEnd == false);
>
> But what I receive is far from what I send...
> Does someone see a problem with the code above ?
>
> What I send:
> "UserName:Patrick Ouellet"<CR><LF>
>
> What I receive ( when I display it using FrmCopyLabel )
> �R�R�R�R�R�R�R�r
> Till I get a Fatal exception (assuming that I hit the capacity limit of
> my string... Be cause I
> loop until I find a <CR><LF> in the receiving buffer)
>
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