periodic reading of variable length lines from an ASCII text file and sending as hex-converted binary data

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

oops... I didn't mean to double post
I didn't see the "awaiting oderation" message first time
please use the second one

[Stefan Zieker]

Hi you can find an example in the attachment that does following:
- read the text file data.txt (in the script folder)
- splits the lines (all lines must end with \r\n)
- removes => and all in front of it for every line
- converts the remaining hex string to a byte array and sends it line by line
- after 10s the above sequence is repeated

[Anonymous]

kewl, thank you
I dove into the QTscript docs to see if I could figure it out myself
I found the
sendFileWithPause.js and then searched for
scriptFile.readBinaryFile
thinking that nearby would be references to
scriptFile.readTextFileOneLine
or some such thing

I just ended up down the rabbit hole of full-on OO C++ programming

Somewhere I saw a reference to a script editor which apparently contains
all of the function references
I'm guessing I'd have to install QT ?
I'm guessing scriptcommunicator is written in QT ?

[Stefan Zieker]

No, you don't have to install Qt (but yes, ScriptCommunicator is written in Qt).
ScriptCommunicator comes with a ScriptEditor. If you add a script in the script windows and klick the 'edit script menu' then the editor will open with your script.
If you want to know more about the API function you should have a look in the manual.

[Anonymous]

I did manage to find script edit in
Scripts | Script | Edit Worker Script

I also managed to figure out how to insert a wait in there
so it doesn't send all the lines in one quick braaap

But Weird!!!
If I attempt to remove any lines from data.txt,
it throws "Invalid line format"
I don't see anything in the script that determines how
many lines there need to be in the file

Aah...
I see that the last line did not have a /r/l
so the script is gagging on the /r/l with nothing after it.
In the course of monkeying around editing the data file
script threw 64:RangeError:Maximum call stack size exceeded...
can't stop it... I went to "Close all windows" and at first it appeared
to do nothing, then after a while it stopped the script but left
both the main and scripts windows open...

Well, getting my wheels on