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Can you send different parameters to serial port?

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parameters...

Hi,

Is it possible to send different parameters (like: kernel processor usage, free memory, file system parameters, etc...) to serial port ?

Cheers !
 

Re: parameters...

Hello,

I can't understand what you want to do... Can you detail your problem?
 

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microchaos said:
Hello,

I can't understand what you want to do... Can you detail your problem?

I want to display those parameters to a lcd display, after the OS start :)
Hope this give you an ideea :)

Cheers !
 

Re: parameters...

Ok, one more question. You don't know how to get these parameters from OS or you don't know how to send and display them?

My vision:
You wrote the program, which gets these parameters from system, put it in startup. When system starts, your program gets parameters and sends them via rs232 (lpt, usb etc) to a module which consists from microcontroller (PIC, MSP, etc) and LCD. You need a microcontroller to communicate with PC. So, controller gets the data from PC and displays them to LCD.

Sorry for my bad english :oops: but I hope, you understand ;)

Good luck!
 

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microchaos said:
Ok, one more question. You don't know how to get these parameters from OS or you don't know how to send and display them?
Good luck!

Hi microchaos,

Right, you understand perfect what I want to do :)
The problem is to get those parameters, not to display :)

Cheers !

PS No problem with the english :) English isn't my native language :)
 

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Hi Nex one more time,

Most of system parameters you can get from registry (in Win ;) ). For instance this procedure returns the frequency of CPU in MHz:

DWORD CPUFreqFromReg()
{
HKEY hKey;
DWORD dwBuff;
LONG lreg;
DWORD dwfreq;

lreg = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Hardware\\Description\\System\\CentralProcessor\\0", 0, KEY_READ, &hKey);

if(lreg == ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
dwBuff = sizeof(DWORD);
lreg = RegQueryValueEx(hKey, "~MHz", NULL, NULL, (LPBYTE)(&dwfreq), &dwBuff);
RegCloseKey (hKey);
};

if(lreg != ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
dwfreq = 0;
};

return dwfreq;
};

For the CPU ussage try this link:
hxxp://www.google.lt/search?q=cache:84B48FRl_ZcJ:codeproject.com/system/cpuusage.asp+%22get+cpu+usage%22+c%2B%2B&hl=lt&ie=UTF-8


You should refer to MSDN and Google too ;)

My best regards to Rumunia! ;)
 

Re: parameters...

Hello,

If you can read russish, you can try this link: w*w.proglib.ru

Cheers!
 

Re: parameters...

I just found this link:

h**p://w*w.proglib.ru/detail.asp?id=946

I think there will be a good starting point for you.
 

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microchaos said:
I just found this link:

h**p://w*w.proglib.ru/detail.asp?id=946

I think there will be a good starting point for you.

I can't download that file, thanks anyway :)
I'll try later :)

Cheers !
 

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