RE: Aw: serial port patch files octave instrument-control

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Donoghue [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 10:22 AM
> To: Stefan Mahr; Alexander Heimel; address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Aw: serial port patch files octave instrument-control
> 
> On 03/06/2015 09:08 AM, Stefan Mahr wrote:
> >> For my application on the raspberry pi, I needed to also read the
> >> serial ClearToSend and DataSetReady pins. I have adapted your code to
> >> do exactly that for linux-machines. The changed files are attached.
> >> Would you like to include it in the main code? I can also send patch
> >> files if you prefer. The only caveat is that I don't have a windows
> >> pc or mac, so that I am not sure if I broke the windows and mac code
> >> with my changes in get.m and __srl_properties__.cc. You would need to
> >> check that.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Alexander Heimel
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > Thanks for your patch. I just pushed a modified version to hg repository 
> > [1].
> Instead of using the pin names for the properties I added property 'PinStatus'
> and return a struct that includes CTS, DSR, CD and RI signals. This fits 
> better to
> existing MATLAB behaviour. I also added win32 support, but I can't test it.
> >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > could you help out and test/correct the new property with win32?
> >
> >
> > BR,
> > Stefan
> >
> >
> > ------------------------
> > [1]
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/instrument-control/ci/d84afe02be06e698
> > da7bc89dc049d7224e6ea425/
> >
> 
> I will take a look

Compiles ok in octave 4.0.0 rc1, running on windows 7.

I wired from RTS (+6V) to each of RI, CTS, DSR and CD in turn and on running:
get(s1).pinstatus  (where s1 is my opened serial port) the status line I had 
connected to had changed from 'Off' on 'On'