[Ham-Mac] Serial devices names

[T. Joseph Carter]

I'll have a look, thanks!  My serial port access is done in POSIX C 
because I intend the result to be cross-platform, with native UIs for 
different platforms.  Only a handful of open source software packages 
seem to do it that way, but they're the ones I tend to find behave as 
expected on the various OSes, so that's how I'm doing it.  :)

My first bit of code is for the Wouxun HTs.  The closest to native 
software to access them is owx (which didn't work) or CHIRP (which 
did, but is rather incomplete, requires X11, and is not going to ever 
work with VoiceOver!)  I don't need VoiceOver, but I have friend who 
certainly do!

I was backing up, restoring, and read/modify/writing the Wouxun 
memory map within a couple of hours.  That leaves polish, reading and 
writing data formats, nice features like scanning multiple likely 
serial ports, and of course writing a UI that isn't just plain awful 
to use.  It's the result of all of those many months working on 
pilot-link back in the day.

Anyway, as it happens, my choice to make the core program portable C 
is welcome to others, particularly blind users on Windows.  It 
requires very advanced skills with JAWS to use the official Wouxun 
software (which I found difficult enough to use without it!)  Third 
party alternative KG-UV Commander, in addition to its annoying habit 
of crashing with an error message if you tab through a blank field 
and leave it blank, is even worse accessibility-wise.

Time to work on it has been sketchy, but progress has been good.

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:36:54PM -0700, Hal Mueller wrote:
>When I've done that work in the past, I've used Andreas Mayer's AMSerialPort class. It provides notifications when devices are added and removed, and tells you the name of the new device. It's hosted at Sourceforge (http://amserial.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amserial/), and uses a separate NSThread for each serial device. I've used it when talking to Keyspan, to a Bluetooth GPS, and to a Bluetooth-serial converter.
>
>Two different forks are on Github (smokyonion/AMSerialPort and pizthewiz/AMSerialPort). It looks like smokyonion's fork uses NSOperation instead of NSThread. Both of the Github forks, and Andreas's version on Sourceforge, appear to be under active development.
>
>If you get your project up on a repository somewhere, I can test with the above devices, maybe an old Belkin adapter, and an AIS radio. I also have a Kenwood TH-D71 and Yaesu FT-350 I could try (those both have proprietary USB adapters that, under Windows, show up as COM: devices). Getting a decent preferences panel going for this was a pain, and if you're interested I can contribute some Core Data code that did that very nicely.
>
>(with apologies to those who are not Cocoa developers!)
>
>73
>Hal
>N3YX
>
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