General Serial Plugin

Ceesmf · Post by **Ceesmf** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:21 am

I want to control a serial device (the famous HCS2) with this plugin

In order to update system variables in the HCS2 I need to send a "%" or hex 25 to the HCS

I.m using the general serial pluging

The plugin however treats this character as a special character (to imbed property values in the command) and reports an error (Unknow conversion type )

Anyone with a workaround for this problem (can't change the HCS software)

Post by **ScottBot** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:31 pm

Could you set the string type to 'hex' and just use 25 in place of the %?

Ceesmf · Post by **Ceesmf** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:42 pm

Thanks for your quick reply Scott , I tried both , but with the same result

btw marvelous piece of software

Post by **ScottBot** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:50 pm

It would be nice if you could use %%, but I didn't think of that when writing the parsing. Other than to somehow pass a '%' in as the Property Value, I don't see a way of doing this.

I'll add it to the V2.0 list, if you want to wait.

Ceesmf · Post by **Ceesmf** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:16 pm

Thanks again, wonder how you find the time to answer all those questions

Of course i can add a property value to the string, but can't figure out which property value is sent ; I added a new property to the device I created, but how to determine in the string that that value has to be taken

command is invoked via a button

Post by **ScottBot** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:47 pm

I don't completely understand your setup to give you exact advice with this. For configuring the Property values and associating them to serial Commands, I can only refer you to the online help for the Serial Device and the Serial Hardware Interface. I've explained it better there than I will be able to here and now.

I hope to have a beta version of the next release out in a couple of weeks. You may have to wait until then. I'll implement using %% to be used for inserting a single %.