Capturing data from a Serial Port

[aircooled76]

Hi Guys,

I am bringing in some Serial data from a scoreboard controller... and I am having trouble bringing it into LiveCode...

I read that the serial input is read from the COM port like reading a file...

I tried

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read from file "COM14" until empty
   put  it after field "SerialOutput"

But no luck... I have also had several LiveCode crashes while playing with the COM info... I have found some posts about Serial data in the forums... but no complete answer that helps me http://ftp.runrev.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 42&p=50853 for example.

Any help appreciated!

[dave_probertGA6e24]

Hi,

Haven't tried this but I think the "COM14" you have should have a Colon at the end, ie. "COM14:"

Cheers,
Dave

[aircooled76]

Hi Guys...

Adding the ":" got me the data... I now need some kind of read loop as the application crashes if I try to bring in the whole feed at once...

Thank you!

Mike

[BvG]

make sure to report crashes here: http://quality.runrev.com