Re: OpenG Serial drivers

[Martin H. <mar...@mh...>]

John Brohan wrote:

> Thanks for your offer, I have LV 6.1 and I'd like to try to get some
> royalty free Serial drivers written! How do I start?

> Jim Kring wrote:
>> John,
>> 
>> OpenG is a great forum work on such a thing.  I can help you get a project
>> started.
>> 

Also, many thanks to you Jim.

Let  me  explain,  what  we discussed on Info-LabVIEW and in
private  mail.  (John,  please  reply  to  this  posting, if
something is not correct.)

At  first,  we  would like to collect some existing royality
free   and   open  source  solutions  for  the  serial  port
communication.


  Scott  Hannahs  has  a  set  of  serial drivers maybe from
  Albert  Geven.  These  VIs  are  interfacing to the legacy
  serial  port  driver which officially exists until LabVIEW
  6.1.

  I  have  written  serial  port  interface  written for the
  windows  operating  system.  All  mayor  functionality are
  inside  a DLL which is written in C. The functions in this
  DLL are handling the labview data types (error cluster, LV
  strings,  LV  booleans...). Not all functions are actually
  tested, so this interface is actually a beta version.

As Scott Hannahs explained:

> What is needed is a CROSS PLATFORM serial interface.

So we need developers esp. for Mac OS and Linux.

Anyway,  we  would  like to start this project. At first, we
need  a  little piece space on a web or ftp server, where we
can temporarily store the collected packages for our own use.
I  can  also  store  this  on my own server, but I prefer to
store the packeges on openg.org if this is possible.

John  Brohan will stay in contact to Jim Kring who tells him
how we can start the project on OpegG.org

The  next  steps  would  be the examination of the collected
packages. Then we'll decide what we exactly want to do.


-- 
Martin Henz