[SOLVED] Overlapped serial comunication

[Projetos_afg]

Hi,

I'm have been trying to write an code in C++ by using the Win32 API to communicate through the RS232 serial port with equipment. It's a simplex communication (only the equipment sends data in blocks of 289 bytes). I'm using an dedicated thread to read the serial port. Firstly I tried to use non-overlapped communication, but I realized that is impossible to close the serial port if there's no data incoming (the thread gets stuck on WaitCommEvent function). So I tried to use overlapped I/O and WaitForMultipleObjects to solve this problem:

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void *SerialRead(void *param)  // param is a dummy pointer
{
    OVERLAPPED overlapped;
    
    memset( &overlapped, 0, sizeof(overlapped) );
    overlapped.hEvent = CreateEvent( NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL );
 
    SerialEvents[0] = overlapped.hEvent;
    
    ReadFile(SerialPort, SerialBuffer, 289, &dwBytesRead, &overlapped);//Try to read 289 bytes
    
    
    while (WaitForMultipleObjects(2, SerialEvents, false, INFINITE) == WAIT_OBJECT_0) //Wait for some event, if is an serial port event, executes de loop, if not, exit.
    {
 
        //...
        //Do stuff
        ReadFile(SerialPort, SerialBuffer, 289, &dwBytesRead, &overlapped); //Attempt to read the next 289 bytes
    }
 
    ClosePort();
    return 0;
}

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I use the function SetEvent(SerialEvents[1]); to close serial port on the main thread.

To open the serial port:

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SerialPort = CreateFile(PortName,
GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE,//access ( read and write)
0,    //(share) 0:cannot share the COM port
0,    //security  (None)                
OPEN_EXISTING,// creation : open_existing
FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,    // overlapped I/O
0// no templates file for COM port...
);

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The problem is that even if I recive the 289 bytes, the thread keeps wating the function "WaitForMultipleObjects" return. If I recive the next 289 bytes the WaitForMultipleObjects function returns, but the data are mixed.

Someone could help me?

 

[Projetos_afg]

I discovered the problem. It was that on setup when openning the serial port I was calling GetCommState() function before SetCommState(), so it was overwriting the DCB structure configuration, setting a wrong baud rate value. I fix it and now it's working wonderfully!