CommAPI
CommAPI translates the communications functions of Windows API to AutoIt functions.
Overview
Features
- No need to install DLL's
- Using Windows API calls (kernel32.dll)
- Possibility of serial communication (serial port, COM port, RS-232)
- Possibility of parallel communication (parallel port, LPT port)
- No use of global variables
- Uniform namespace _CommAPI_XXX
- Modular organization into files
- A lot of additional utility and helper functions
Scripts
Examples
CommAPI Examples shows you some examples. Mayby you could find more examples in forum.
Background
History
- 2008-09-12 Creation of cfx.au3 (V1.0)
- 2011-02-18 Conversation of cfx.au3 into cfxUDF.au3 (V2.0)
- 2011-02-28 Update V2.0to V2.1
- 2011-04-27 Update V2.1 to V2.2 (german forum)
- 2013-07-10 Modify V2.1 to V2.1mod
- 2013-10-24 Creation of CommAPI.au3
Changelog
- 2014-01-23
- Small update of method _CommAPI_CreateModeString
- 2014-02-03
- Change timeout handling (Attention: not backward compatible)
- Small update of method _CommAPI_PurgeComm
- 2014-03-07
- Rename CommAPIStructures.au3 to CommAPIConstants.au3
- Replace hex values with Constants
- 2014-03-27
- Update of call _WinAPI_CreateFile
- Updated @error handling
- New parameter MaxLen for function _CommAPI_ReceiveData
- New function _CommAPI_ReceiveLine
- Update existing examples and add new examples
- 2014-03-31
- Add constants
- Fix _CommAPI_WaitCommEvent
- 2014-04-03
- Fix reading error Chr(128) to Chr(255)
Roadmap
There is no roadmap in the moment. Feel free to implement the last five remaining API calls, enhance the scripts or to fix bugs.
Support
There is no official support. Try to get help from community in the official forum. Here you can find the main thread.
Resources
- MSDN Library of communications functions
- WIN32API.TXT
- cfxUDF.au3 (see section above)
- GetCOMPorts (german forum)
- ParseCommState
Functions
Implemented API functions
- BuildCommDCB
- BuildCommDCBAndTimeouts
- ClearCommBreak
- ClearCommError
- EscapeCommFunction
- GetCommMask
- GetCommModemStatus
- GetCommProperties
- GetCommState
- GetCommTimeouts
- PurgeComm
- SetCommBreak
- SetCommMask
- SetCommState
- SetCommTimeouts
- SetupComm
- TransmitCommChar
- WaitCommEvent
Unimplemented API functions
- CommConfigDialog
- GetCommConfig
- GetDefaultCommConfig
- SetCommConfig
- SetDefaultCommConfig
API helper functions
- ChangeCommStateElement
- ChangeCommTimeoutsElement
- GetCommStateElement
- GetCommTimeoutsElement
- IsOnCTS
- IsOnDCD
- IsOnDSR
- IsOnRI
- SetCommStateElement
- SetCommTimeoutsElement
- SetOnDTR
- SetOnRTS
Utility functions
- CommStateToString
- CommTimeoutsToString
- CreateModeString
- GetCOMPorts
Interface functions
- ClosePort
- OpenCOMPort
- OpenPort
- ReceiveData
- TransmitData