COM port - Linux

Does BMax support wrting and reading to the comport under Linux?

I have Blitz Plus running with portio DLL on Windows but would ideally like this to run on Linux.

Any help greatly appreciated.

If you write yourself a COM Port Stream Class that extends the regular one and use that one, yes.

Not out of the box

Ok, was hoping there was an existing lib that I could use.

But thanks for the reply.

Yes.

On Linux, there are text terminal drivers for all serial ports. Just use OpenStream on any one of the dev/ttySn (where n is the logical number of the serial port you want to access) devices you want to use and it should work out of the box.

Brilliant, thank you very much.

Guess I'll be purchasing Blitz Max then.

try wxCTB with blitzMAX

And where does one get that?

Nigel's a bit quick on the trigger...

There's some info about wxMax HERE a WIP GUI module for BlitzMax which comes with some other useful additions, like wxCTB, a serial port API.

But it is work-in-progress, so unless you like to dabble with unfinished things, you may want to wait til it gets an official release.

BlitzMax is well worth the money.