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MyTerm - quick serial terminal application


#    To demonstrate how simple is to build an Windows application to handle
# a serial port I propose you a simple RS232 terminal. Tools used:
# Easy Control: the script engine and application builder
# Rack Designer: the graphic user interface builder
# Using Rack Designer build the GUI, something like this:
# <insert image>
# Please use for the control elements the following names:
#    Send button : pbutton1
#    Add CRLF button : pbutton2
#    Field for to send data: edit1
#    Numeric input for setting how many times to send data : num1
#
# The script uses the latest features of Easy Control Basic language,
# procedures being one of them. These are pieces of code enclosed between
# procedure and procend words. This code is executed only when the procedure
# is called somewhere in the main code, starting after the last procedure body.
#
# Let see the code:
# This is executed only when called
procedure setup
    err="no error"
    # Open the GUI built with Rack Designer
    openrack("c:\easycontrol\serial_ex\myterm.res")
    # Check errors
    if (error==1)
        err="Error opening rack !"
        exit
    endif
    # Put Add CRLF button in ON state
    pbutton2=1
    # Initialize how many times will send data
    num1=1
    # Open serial port
    myport="com1"
    openport(myport,9600,8,"n",1)
    # Show a 400x300 pixels terminal window to watch data
    showterm(myport,400,300,8)
    # If we talk to a modem it might be need to set RTS line
    setrts (myport)
    # Check errors again
    if (error==1)
        err="Error opening serial port !"
        exit
    endif
procend
# This is executed only when called
procedure send
    # Load in the tosend variable the content of edit1 text field
    tosend=edit1
    # And get its length
    ltosend=len (tosend)
    # If is something to send
    if (ltosend>>1)
        # If Add CRLF button is ON add these characters to the end of data
        if (pbutton2==1)
            tosend=tosend&chr(13)&chr(10)
        endif
        # Now send data, a number of times given by the num1 value
        for (i,1,num1,1)
            # This actually sends data to the serial port
            send (myport,tosend)
        next
    endif
    # Reste the Send button back in OFF state
    pbutton1=0
procend
# Here begins the main program
# Run setup procedure, to open serial port and terminal
setup
# If no errors
if (err=="no error")
    # Enter the forever program loop
    while (1)
        # Wait here
        while (pbutton1==0)
            # until Send button is pressed, switching its state from OFF to ON
        wend
        # Run send procedure, which will take data from edit1 text field
        # and send it to the serial port
        send
    wend
else
    # There was an error, print it in the log
    writelog (err)
endif
# Code ends here
# Is that simple to build it? Yes !
# This example is included in the trial distribution of Easy Control,
# along other examples.
# The nice looking syntax highlighting and coloring you see here is exactly how
# it looks in Easy Control built-in editor. Other features are code competition
# and syntax hints.
# Get Easy Control from here