[Lazarus] Using 5dpo for serial comm...

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:37:09 +0100, Paulo Costa <paco at fe.up.pt> wrote:

>> But with TSdpoSerial I can't find any such property as TxWaiting or
>> similar to check.
>> Is it not needed or possible? Maybe the component can handle any size
>> string I send to it without choking?
>>
>> But what about the user feedback? I would really want to be able to
>> show the actual data flow to the user in a progress bar since the
>> whole operation takes considerable time.
>> So how can I know how many bytes have actually left the transmit
>> buffer (or how many that still remain to be sent).
>
>TSdpoSerial exposes a property SynSer: TBlockSerial where there are more 
>methods like:
>     function SendingData: integer; virtual;
>     {:Returns the number of bytes waiting to be sent in the output buffer.
>      0 is returned when the output buffer is empty.}
>
>Probably it is what you need.
>
>Paulo Costa

Thanks, this is exactly what I need!
So if there are more detailed items needed I could look at the SynSer
documentation, right?


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Bo Berglund
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