please Marc, let me know when you release your externals they could be useful to realize my external
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Lavallée" odradek@videotron.ca To: "Riccardo Visinoni" shivanv@tiscali.it Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [PD] another problem
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Le 29 Juillet 2003 07:53, Riccardo Visinoni a écrit :
First of all thanks a lot for the "how to ..." links. Now I've got a great problem (maybe it's stupid but I'm not expert). I have to connect an external device to my pc and it has to control an abstraction realized with pd. This device will be connected to pc via serial port. Does exist an abstraction or an external, that could help me to send information throgh the serial port? Riccardo
Hi Riccardo.
To send information through the serial port, a serial external is required. On Linux, I'm aware of two serial externals: "serialctl" by Gunter Geiger, and "comport" by Winfried Ritsch. On Windows, I think there's only "comport". For a previous project, I tried "serialctl" but for some reason it didn't work for me so I had to use "comport".
But "comport" is difficult to use because it sends are receives ascii character codes, one by one in a stream mode. I will soon release a set of externals, called "any2ascii" and "ascii2any", to convert numbers, symbols and lists from and to serial ascii streams. Stay tuned...
Marc