does one exsist that helps communicate with the usb and/or serial port?
if so where can it be found?
thanks
does one exsist that helps communicate with the usb and/or serial port?
if so where can it be found?
thanks
Which OS/Compiler?
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
microsoft visual studio.net
or
dev c++ for windows or gcc or linux (but im using cygwin so i dunno if its a TRUE linux evniornment)
The serial port isn't too hard. I don't have a reference at-hand, but as I recall, with Windows, you can open the port as a file. Try searching the board. There was a post about this awhile back. Any of the Windows "beyond" Win98 will block direct user-mode access to hardware addresses. So, I think opening the port as a file gets-around this.
USB is another story. You have to write a driver, and this is advanced shtuff. I've never done it. (Again for Windows) You have to get the DDK (Driver Development Kit) and use the compiler & libraries that come with the DDK to write a kernel mode driver.
There is a good introductory article about USB drivers in the current issue of Dr.Dobbs Journal. (That's NOT a link to the article... it's not online free. )
There is also a good book on Windows Drivers by Walter Oney.
[EDIT]-
BeyondLogic.org has lots of information about interfacing.
Last edited by DougDbug; 03-12-2004 at 01:15 PM.
There's an awsome C++ wrapper class for serial I/O under windows right here.
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i shall try thatOriginally posted by Codeplug
There's an awsome C++ wrapper class for serial I/O under windows right here.
gg
thank you all for ur help