On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Martin Peach wrote:

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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Does anyone ever using the [serial] object in Windows that is in Pd- vanilla? Its currently implemented in Tcl so I am wondering what
to do with it in the new GUI.

Well it has significantly less functionality than [comport] (output
only, no way to change baud rate, only works on Windows...not even a
help patch). Why not put [comport] into vanilla, maybe renaming it [serial] for
Max compatibility?

I think we should not put comport in vanilla because then we have to
do extra work to work on it (i.e. submit patches and wait for Miller
to accept them). [comport] has a very different API than Max's
[serial] so that would make matters worse. I would like to see an
object called [serial] that has an API more like [hid].

.hc

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