If you happen to be using this comport object in Win2K, and you want to READ from the serial port, I had to make a minor change to the source code in order for it to work for me. In particular I had to open the port in non-overlapped mode, instead of overlapped mode which is how the original works. I'm not sure if this is the right long-term solution for all Win32 platforms and I doubt I'll have the time and initiative to test it on any other platforms, but if you try this out and run into problems, I'd be glad to see if I can help.

--mark

-----Original Message----- From: Norbert Math [mailto:math@iem.kug.ac.at] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:32 PM To: Frederick C. Strathmeyer Cc: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD] "serial" command

for an alternative serial object (linux and nt) see

http://iem.kug.ac.at/pdwiki/index.php?ComPort

norbert

On 1 Nov 2001, Frederick C. Strathmeyer wrote:

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The only mention of the "serial" object that I can find is in 5.reference/0.INTRO.TXT

------------------------------ MISC ---------------------------------- loadbang - bang on load serial - serial device control for NT only

Can anyone give me more information on this object? Are there

plans for any

...

other types of control? On other platforms?

Thanks, -FCS