Never mind, I discovered a stupid mistake.. (sigh), how comes it seems that whenever I actually post something I tend to find a stupid error right afterwards.. ugh.. oh well
- Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:30 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Loss of Serial Ir data during receive loop I have an application that receives serial data from an external device via the Ir port. The external device logs data, so I get a number telling me how many records will follow followed by a set of records (each record is 32 bytes), I can get anywhere from 1 to 995 records. I currently have an application that receives up to about 850 ( +/- 20 ) records when I try and receive 995 records. (the application works just fine for less then 850 records). I noticed this paragraph in the Palm Programmers Companion book "Applications should not loop indefinitely on the SrmReceiveCheck and SrmReceiveWait functions, waiting for serial data to arrive on the port, without allowing the Palm OS to obtain time to execute other tasks running in the same thread (by calling EvtGetEvent and SysHandleEvent). Virtual devices often run in the same thread as applications and this can prevent virtual devices and other serial related code from properly handling received data." could anyone clear up whether looping for 995 times would be close enough to "indefinitely" to cause this type of behavior? The device that is sending me data has no flow control, it just sends until it's done so I've always assumed I just had to loop for the number of records to follow and things would work just fine. But I seem to 'miss' the last 100 records.. Thanks Thomas -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
