Reading and Writing to a Serial Comm Port 1

[vacunita]

I need to send some information to a serial port and read back from it. Is there any way to do it??

Any help would be appreciated
thanx

 

[Ronin441]

AFAIK, there is no nice VCL wrapper for Windows' serial port stuff; so you have to use Windows APIs directly. These aren't object oriented, and are much less pretty than the VCL stuff; but they're quite useable. Their help is in a different place, too. Go to Start -- Programs -- Delphi -- Help -- MS SDK Help Files, and you'll see a swagload of help files. (If they're not there, you probably neglected to install them when you installed Delphi.) Go to, oh, let's say the Win32 Programmer's Reference; although as far as I can make out, these help files are all heavily interlinked and it doesn't much matter which one you open. Look up Communications in the index, and then use the >> button to page through. This should give you what you need to know. Examples are in C, but you should be easily able to translate.

 

[PascalKlaus]

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