RS-232 class libraries/support?

[heartm8]

Hello,
Most of my hobbyist programs involve parsing data streams from equipment. Is this supported in Cobra. I did do a search for RS-232 and found nothing on the forum.
Thanks

[Charles]

Cobra can leverage libraries from the .NET/Mono community. You'll get useful hits with these searches:

https://www.google.com/search?q=.net+rs-232

https://www.google.com/search?q=mono+rs-232

[hopscc]

Heres some of the example code at 'http://msmvps.com/blogs/coad/archive/2005/03/23/SerialPort-_2800_RS_2D00_232-Serial-COM-Port_2900_-in-C_2300_-.NET.aspx'
= 2nd hit in .Net search above - quick converted to a Cobra program.

use System.IO.Ports
use System.Windows.Forms

class SerPort
     shared
        # Instantiate the communications port with some basic settings 
        var port = SerialPort("COM1",  9600, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One)

    def main is shared
        print 'serialPorts:'
        for s in SerialPort.getPortNames 
            print s
        
        .sendSampleData
        #.rcvSampleData
            
    def sendSampleData is shared
        #Open the port for communications 
        try 
            .port.open
        catch ioe as System.IO.IOException
            print ioe.message
            CobraCore.exit(1)

        # Write a string 
        .port.write("Hello World")
        # Write a set of bytes 
        .port.write(@[0x0A_u8, 0xE2_u8, 0xFF_u8], 0, 3) 

        # Close the port
        .port.close     
        
        
    def rcvSampleData is shared

        print "Incoming Data:"

        # Attach a method to be called when there is data waiting in the port's buffer 
        # C#:   port.DataReceived += newSerialDataReceivedEventHandler( port_DataReceived )
        listen  .port.dataReceived, SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(ref .port_DataReceived )
        # Begin communications 
        .port.open 
        # Enter an application loop to keep this thread alive - GUI program - otherwise use a reader Thread 
        Application.run 
        
    def port_DataReceived(sender as Object, e as SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) is shared
        # Show all the incoming data in the port's buffer 
        Console.writeLine( .port.readExisting)

[Charles]

Thanks hopscc. I added this to the wiki at SerialPort.