serial port output 1

[rmageddon]

Hi there!
Could someone please point me in the right direction for programming a serial port to activate a motor.
Is there a particular API for serial communication in VC++ 6? I have briefly looked through the MSDN stuff but couldn't find anything particularly informative. Any help will be much appreciated. I am not too worried about the hardware side of this problem, I just need to know how to get started from the software side.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Cedium]

Here is some API calls to open the serial port and use it :

CreateFile Open the port,
WriteFile write to the port (like to file)
ReadFile read from the port
CloseHandle Close the port
SetupComm Initialize the communication

there is a struture called "dcd" it's used to pass every parameter, like baud rate, flow control,....

GetCommProperties to read it
SetCommState to set them

GetCommTimeouts read the timeouts
SetCommTimeouts set the timeouts

PurgeComm purge the input or/and output buffer
ClearCommError clear the port error

there are some other API calls...
If you wish I can show you some example.

I hope it helped a bit,

Cedium

 

[alexw]

Hope this one also helpful for you.

Serial Communications in Win32

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwbgen/html/msdn_serial.asp

Alex Wu