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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to use modem/serial device with Qt/KDE
From:       Sean McGlynn <sean () tmiau ! com>
Date:       2002-06-24 21:59:56
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On Tuesday 25 June 2002 17:24, Per Edin wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2002 16:01, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Monday 24 June 2002 15:42, nhasan@nadmm.com wrote:
> > > I need to communicate with the modem device for something that I am
> > > planning to develop for KDE. This communication is limited to just
> > > sending AT commands and reading responses from the modem. What is the
> > > Qt/KDE (read portable) way to do this? I need to do a select() like
> > > operation on the serial device to wait for data from the modem, which
> > > can arrive at random.
> >
> > Kandy in kdepim/kandy has classes doing this. I don't think there is a
> > standard KDE way. Maybe we should introduce a class KModem in kdelibs if
> > this is a common problem.
>
> I Agree, but name it too something like KSerialComm or similar because I am
> going to use code from plptools to make a program for my Psion Revo.

There's also QextSerialPort available at http://www.wroth.addr.com if 
anyone's interested in looking at it or contacting the author. It's GPL'ed I 
believe. Just thought I'd mention it as I'd seen it on my web travels :-)

Cheers,
Sean
-- 
Sean McGlynn
sean@tmiau.com
 
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