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Name: JSY
Date: November 30, 2004 at 08:26:55 Pacific
Subject: unable to transmit serial data
OS: Palm OS v3.3
CPU/Ram: 4MB
Comment:

hi. i'm new in doing this. i've written a set of codes in CodeWarrior using C++ intending to transmit data out from my PDA (PAlmIIIx) via serial communication but it doesn't work. What's wrong?

class dish
{
private:
string identity;
public:
dish(string orderId);
string getIdentity();

};


dish :: dish(string orderId)
{
identity = orderId;
}

string dish :: getIdentity()
{
return identity;
}


static Boolean MainFormHandleEvent(EventPtr eventP)
{
Boolean handled = false;
FormPtr frmP;
string tableNumber, toSend;

toSend[4] = '|';


switch (eventP->eType)
{
case frmOpenEvent:
frmP = FrmGetActiveForm();
MainFormInit (frmP);
FrmDrawForm (frmP);
handled = true;


tableNumber = "0001|";

case ctlSelectEvent:
switch (eventP->data.ctlSelect.controlID)
{

case MainChickenButton:
dish Chicken(ChickenId);
toSend = Chicken.getIdentity();
break;

case MainBeefButton:
dish Beef(BeefId);
toSend = Beef.getIdentity();
break;

case MainOkButton:
static Err OpenSerial(void);
static void WriteSerial(void);
static void CloseSerial(void);

FrmGotoForm (TQDialog);
handled = true;
break;

}


tableNumber += toSend;


case frmCloseEvent:
MainFormDeinit(FrmGetActiveForm());
break;

default:
break;

}
return handled;

}

/*Opening Serial Port*/

static Err OpenSerial (void)
{

#define serPortLocalHotSync 0x8000
UInt16 portID;
Err error;
Boolean serPortOpened = false;

//srmOpen(port identifier, baud rate, pointer to a variable to
//receiver portID)
error = SrmOpen(serPortLocalHotSync, 9600, &portID);

if (error)
{

//Displays error message if error occurs
ErrNonFatalDisplayIf(error == serErrBadPort, "serErrBadPort");

}

return serPortOpened;
}

/*Closing Serial Port*/

static void CloseSerial (void)
{

Err error;
#define portID 0x8000 //Defines portID as serPortLocalHotSync
0x8000


//Waits until all data in the transmit queue has been sent and then
// only exit the application.
error = SrmSendWait(portID);
SrmClose(portID);

if (error)
{

//Displays error message if error occurs.
ErrNonFatalDisplayIf(error == serErrBadPort, "srmClose :
BadPort");

}

}

/*Sending Data*/

static void WriteSerial (void)
{

string tableNumber, numSent;
Err error;
numSent = SrmSend(portID, &tableNumber, 256, &error);

}


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