Lazarus port of PX
evanh
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Starting from Chip's mid November source code of PX.exe, posted here - http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1355154/#Comment_1355154 - I've ported it to the Lazarus+FreePascal development platform.
Changes include:
- Automatic translations by Lazarus's Delphi import wizard.
- Minimal replacement of the comms code with calls to an off-the-shelf cross-platform unit - SynaSer.
- Widening of command line parsing to allow a greater selection of comport naming and also unix style path formatting.
Note: It's got a slightly annoying bug in that the SynaSer Connect() procedure lacks a return code and has many failure cases within that can seemingly only be managed via exception trapping. Without those exceptions enabled, if a comport opening failure occurs, then the subsequent transmit code errors out instead; which is not an accurate representation of what went wrong.
Note2: Just adding link to initial commentary - http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1357051/#Comment_1357051
Changes include:
- Automatic translations by Lazarus's Delphi import wizard.
- Minimal replacement of the comms code with calls to an off-the-shelf cross-platform unit - SynaSer.
- Widening of command line parsing to allow a greater selection of comport naming and also unix style path formatting.
Note: It's got a slightly annoying bug in that the SynaSer Connect() procedure lacks a return code and has many failure cases within that can seemingly only be managed via exception trapping. Without those exceptions enabled, if a comport opening failure occurs, then the subsequent transmit code errors out instead; which is not an accurate representation of what went wrong.
Note2: Just adding link to initial commentary - http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1357051/#Comment_1357051
