COM-port event

[Totte]

I have no problem with opening the COM-port (serial device) and reading and writing but i have seen somewhere that i can make make it do a sort of "SetEvent" when there are incoming data on the serial port. I.e. the OS doing the "SetEvent".

 

[Totte]

Did sort of fix it myself: i discovered that by setting the timeouts at certain values when opening the port can hold the thread untill something is incoming on the serial port.
BUT, this leaves me with the problem: if i'm having a WaitForSingleOblect or similar with infinite timeout pending and i'm terminating the whole program...then wat happens when something comes in on the serial port???
Will the pending event dissapear??? If so, it's no sweat.

 

[2ffat]

You need to create a new thread. That way the thread will do the waiting while the program can do something else.
James P. Cottingham

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[Totte]

I have a separate thread which checks for incoming bytes and dos the decoding and by investigating more i discovered that if i set the timeouts at certain values it halts, waiting for the first incoming and the halt is done in the OS, thus freeing resurses. This is the very effect i wanted, i do not know what "CPU-power" my application will be running om but it will be mostly on LapTops and they might be old!