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Re: Jifi

How hard would it be to integrate a serial console to your program as one of the tabs, like the "debug window" that pops up in IFI's program?

I know that I can "cat /dev/ttyS0" in Linux or "type COM1" in Windows, but it would be nice to have it integrated if possible.

From what I understand, it involves reading the serial port when not downloading, checking if it is ASCII (to avoid getting garbage data, i.e. line feeds or else values between 32 and 126), and displaying it in a text box.

Also, IFI has a useful checkbox to pause output... I would imagine this might also be relatively simple to add in.

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