Serial Communication port

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Hi,

I wrote a code to communicate with serial port ("com1:").
Under win32 API this works properly. In evc4, the same code compile without any error and establishes the link with ("com1:") but when it executes the readfile statement:

C++

song=ReadFile(
   hComm   ,       // handlePort_: handle of file to read
   (BYTE*)tmpMsg,  // inputData:handle of file to read
   400     ,       // sizeBuffer:number of bytes to read
   BytesRead,     // pointer to number of bytes read
   NULL    );      // pointer to structure for data

it shows that song is true but BytesRead=0.

Any hint to how to get it to work properly?
Thanks

Posted 2-Oct-11 7:08am

EsmatB

Updated 2-Oct-11 7:13am

André Kraak

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Madhu Nair · Answer 1 · 2011-10-03T01:29:00

Solution 1

Try

C++

DWORD dwError = ::GetLastError();

and call FormatMessage[^] to get the error details.

Posted 3-Oct-11 1:29am

Madhu Nair

Updated 3-Oct-11 1:30am

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Albert Holguin 3-Oct-11 21:52pm

OP posted as solution:
the code for GetLastError() is 0, indicates that "the operation completed successfully".