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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk
Not quite what you are looking for, but pyserial for python can toggle the RTS pin, if that is what you are still trying to do. |
Thanks.
It's not just toggling the RTS pin that I'm after. I know how to do that.
I've written countless interrupt-driven RS232 comm test equipment apps, mostly in assembly, for older machines running DOS (where you can diddle directly with the hardware). Many of them run fine from a windows command prompt.
What I want to do is write a small 32-bit windows app that looks something like this:
void main(void){
while(1) do{
SetRTS();
sleep(10);
ClearRTS();
sleep(10);
}
}
... where the sleep() function is blocked waiting, not spinning.
I want to slap a scope on the RTS pin and watch it while I play around with Windows to see what it does to the signal under various conditions.
I'm thinking this would be a visually captivating show-and-tell for students just learning about realtime issues and concurrent processing.