I am sending a number of msgs from different sources one after the other and it seems like it will start sending the next msg before it finished the 1st one. My guess is that the send buffer is not empty yet. I tried (optimistically?) to check if all the chars were sent in the 2nd line of code, this did not work. What is the right way to do this? Thanks!
Code:WriteFile(hSerial,TXBuff0,strlen(TXBuff0),&dwBytesSent,NULL); while(dwBytesSent!=strlen(TXBuff0)){};
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From the information you've given, there is no obvious problem.
Have you checked that hSerial was successfully opened?
Have you ensured that TXBuff0 corresponds to a large enough buffer, and also ensured it is followed by a character with value zero? If not, you could be getting a buffer overrun.
How are you detecting that it is "sending the next msg before it finished the 1st one"? If that code is expecting to use standard string functions (strlen(), strcpy(), strcat(), etc) that code will need to append a zero character to the end of what it reads (since you are not writing the terminating zero).
Why aren't you checking the return value of WriteFile()? It returns zero if it fails, and additional information can then be retrieved using the GetLastError() function.
Thanks for the quick comment. I started suspecting it might not finish the previous buffer because when I step through the code in debug it works well and this is only changing the timing of the execution so I figured this got to do with the previous msg not finishing to send. However the while loop should prevent it no? I also checked the # bytes sent variable and all were sent.
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