Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-05-06 Thread Zaher Dirkey
Try https://sourceforge.net/p/minilib https://sourceforge.net/p/minilib/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/comm/ On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Bob Axtell bob.axt...@gmail.com wrote: This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-03 Thread Roberto P.
Unfortunately I've never tried it on anything other than Win2000-XP-7; I could support you only on these platforms with some examples. If you discover anything interesting on Win CE, please share it! R# 2014-04-03 0:23 GMT+02:00 Martin Gomez mmgo...@outlook.com: On 02/04/2014 05:53 p.m.,

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Schnell
On 04/02/2014 10:53 PM, Roberto P. wrote: I'd like to point out that CPortLaz is multithreaded Does it work similar to AsyncPro ? In fact, IMHO, it would be desirable to have a component that _internally_ uses TThread to handle blocking ports (either using just a byte-FIDO - this is what

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-03 Thread Roberto P.
I don't know AsyncPro, but a quick overview of CPortLaz code reveals the usage of a TThread and WaitForMultipleObjects which is very Windows-centric. R#รป 2014-04-03 11:14 GMT+02:00 Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de: On 04/02/2014 10:53 PM, Roberto P. wrote: I'd like to point out that

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 04/02/2014 10:53 PM, Roberto P. wrote: I'd like to point out that CPortLaz is multithreaded Does it work similar to AsyncPro ? In fact, IMHO, it would be desirable to have a component that _internally_ uses TThread to handle blocking ports (either using just a

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Schnell
On 04/03/2014 12:53 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I think the two would need to be designed together, even if in practice one was coded first. In fact I am planning to do a NoGUI WidgetType some day (hopefully soon), and since some time I do know how this in fact can be done. Unfortunately

[Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Bob Axtell
This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know of a free/cheap component? any how does it install? --Bob A -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Bob Axtell wrote: This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know of a free/cheap component? any how does it install? Maybe you can use synaser from the synapse package ?

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Roberto P.
we currently use this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cportlaz/files/cportlaz/ R# 2014-04-02 8:32 GMT+02:00 Bob Axtell bob.axt...@gmail.com: This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Breneman
On 04/02/2014 02:32 AM, Bob Axtell wrote: This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know of a free/cheap component? any how does it install? www.CtrlTerm.com uses Synapse and Synaser and there is a

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Breneman
On 04/02/2014 09:31 AM, Paul Breneman wrote: On 04/02/2014 02:32 AM, Bob Axtell wrote: This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know of a free/cheap component? any how does it install?

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Paulo Costa
On 02/04/2014 07:32, Bob Axtell wrote: This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know of a free/cheap component? any how does it install? You can try: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdpo-cl/ It

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Roberto P.
I'd like to point out that CPortLaz is multithreaded and that it has both a COM port object and a Packet object. The first one is used to setup, open and close the port; the second one connects to the first one and makes packet handling as simple as: - define what is a packet: Packet.Startstring

Re: [Lazarus] [LAZARUS] Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

2014-04-02 Thread Martin Gomez
On 02/04/2014 05:53 p.m., Roberto P. wrote: I'd like to point out that CPortLaz is multithreaded and that it has both a COM port object and a Packet object. The first one is used to setup, open and close the port; the second one connects to the first one and makes packet handling as simple as: