I am trying to retrieve a value from a Zebra printer by interrogating it with this code:
public static string GetSettingFromPrinter(string cmd)
{
string setting = string.Empty;
try
{
BasicPortSettings bps = new BasicPortSettings();
bps.BaudRate = BaudRates.CBR_19200;
bps.Parity = OpenNETCF.IO.Serial.Parity.none;
bps.StopBits = OpenNETCF.IO.Serial.StopBits.one;
Port serialPort = new Port("COM1:", bps);
serialPort.Open();
byte[] sendBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(cmd);
MessageBox.Show(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(sendBytes, 0, sendBytes.Length));
serialPort.Output = sendBytes;
serialPort.Query(); // <= this is new
byte[] responseBytes = serialPort.Input;
setting = GetString(responseBytes);
serialPort.Close();
return setting;
}
catch (Exception x)
{
MessageBox.Show(x.ToString());
return setting;
}
}
However, I don't see where the Output is actually sent, or how to do that. My best guess was calling the Port.Query() method, but that doesn't work, either - at least there is nothing in setting / the Port.Input value after doing so.
I have successfully passed commands to the printer using the older SerialPort class:
public static bool SendCommandToPrinter(string cmd)
{
bool success; // init'd to false by default
try
{
SerialPort serialPort = new SerialPort();
serialPort.BaudRate = 19200;
serialPort.Handshake = Handshake.XOnXOff;
serialPort.Open();
serialPort.Write(cmd);
serialPort.Close();
success = true;
}
catch // may not need a try/catch block, as success defaults to false
{
success = false;
}
return success;
}
...but was advised not to use that due to its longness of tooth.
I would revert back to this snaggletooth if I knew how to read from the old SerialPort class. Does anybody know what I need to do to send sendBytes (and receive responseBytes)?
UPDATE
I tested "COM1" instead of "COM1:" (I used the latter because there is a post that says the colon is necessary (<= not medical advice, although that is doubtless true in that sense, too), but sans the ":" made no noticeable difference.
I then tried "string.Empty" in place of giving it a name, and got, "OpenNETCF.IO.Serial.CommPortException: CreateFileFailed 2 ..."
Onward...or is it Sideward...
FWIW, setting the Output property immediately sends the data on the wire. No additional call is necessary.
Related
this will be my first post and I will do my best to be clear and concise. I've checked some of the other posts on this forum but was unable to find a satisfactory answer.
My question pertains to the use of JavaFX and the jSSC(java simple serial connection) library. I've designed a very simple GUI application that will host four different charts. Two of the charts will display readings from temperature and solar sensors for the past hour, while the other two display that data over an extended period -- a 14-hour period. Eventually I would like to make that more flexible and set the application to "sleep" when the readings become roughly zero (night).
How can I stream data to display this data in real time?
After referencing several sources online and from "JavaFX 8 Intro. by Example", I've been able to construct most of the serial connection class. I'm having trouble processing the data readings, so that it can be displayed on the chart.
public class SerialComm implements SerialPortEventListener {
Date time = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("mm");
boolean connected;
StringBuilder sb;
private SerialPort serialPort;
final StringProperty line = new SimpleStringProperty("");
//Not sure this is necessary
private static final String [] PORT_NAMES = {
"/dev/tty.usbmodem1411", // Mac OS X
"COM11", // Windows
};
//Baud rate of communication transfer with serial device
public static final int DATA_RATE = 9600;
//Create a connection with the serial device
public boolean connect() {
String [] ports = SerialPortList.getPortNames();
//First, Find an instance of serial port as set in PORT_NAMES.
for (String port : ports) {
System.out.print("Ports: " + port);
serialPort = new SerialPort(port);
}
if (serialPort == null) {
System.out.println("Could not find device.");
return false;
}
//Operation to perform is port is found
try {
// open serial port
if(serialPort.openPort()) {
System.out.println("Connected");
// set port parameters
serialPort.setParams(DATA_RATE,
SerialPort.DATABITS_8,
SerialPort.STOPBITS_1,
SerialPort.PARITY_NONE);
serialPort.setEventsMask(SerialPort.MASK_RXCHAR);
serialPort.addEventListener(event -> {
if(event.isRXCHAR()) {
try {
sb.append(serialPort.readString(event.getEventValue()));
String str = sb.toString();
if(str.endsWith("\r\n")) {
line.set(Long.toString(time.getTime()).concat(":").concat(
str.substring(0, str.indexOf("\r\n"))));
System.out.println("line" + line);
sb = new StringBuilder();
}
} catch (SerialPortException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(SerialComm.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); }
}
});
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("ErrOr");
e.printStackTrace();
System.err.println(e.toString());
}
return serialPort != null;
}
#Override
public void serialEvent(SerialPortEvent spe) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
}
public StringProperty getLine() {
return line;
}
}
Within the try block, I understand the port parameters, but the eventListener is where I am having difficulty. The significance of the stringbuilder is to append data the new data as it is read from the device.
How will I account for the two sensor readings? Would I do that by creating separate data rates to differentiate between the incoming data from each sensor??
I hope that this is clear and that I've provided enough information but not too much. Thank you for any assistance.
-------------------------------UPDATE--------------------------
Since your reply Jose, I've started to make the additions to my code. Adding the listener within the JavaFX class, I'm running into some issues. I keep getting a NullPointerException, which I believe is the String[]data not being initialized by any data from the SerialCommunication class.
serialPort.addEventListener(event -> {
if(event.isRXCHAR()) {
try {
sb.append(serialPort.readString(event.getEventValue()));
String str = sb.toString();
if(str.endsWith("\r\n")) {
line.set(Long.toString(time.getTime()).concat(":").concat(
str.substring(0, str.indexOf("\r\n"))));
System.out.println("line" + line);
sb = new StringBuilder();
}
} catch (SerialPortException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(SerialComm.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
});
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e.toString());
}
I'm adding the time to the data being read. As Jose mentioned below, I've added tags to the data variables within the arduino code, I'm using: Serial.print("Solar:"); Serial.println(solarData);
Rough code of the JavaFx listener:
serialPort.getLine().addListener((ov, t, t1) -> {
Platform.runLater(()-> {
String [] data = t1.split(":");
try {
//data[0] is the timestamp
//data[1] will contain the label printed by arduino "Solar: data"
switch (data[1]) {
case "Solar":
data[0].replace("Solar:" , "");
solarSeries.getData().add(new XYChart.Data(data[0], data[1]));
break;
case "Temperature":
temperatureSeries.getData().add(new XYChart.Data(data[0], data[1]));
break;
}
Is the reason this code has NullPointerException a result of the String [] data array being uninitialized?
Exception Error
Ports: /dev/tty.usbmodem1411Connected
Exception in thread "EventThread /dev/tty.usbmodem1411" java.lang.NullPointerException
at SerialComm.lambda$connect$0(SerialComm.java:61)
at SerialComm$$Lambda$1/1661773475.serialEvent(Unknown Source)
at jssc.SerialPort$LinuxEventThread.run(SerialPort.java:1299)
The SerialPortEventListener defined in the jssc library allows listening for serial port events. One of those events is the RXCHAR event, that occurs when the Arduino board is sending some data and some bytes are on the input buffer.
event.getEventValue() returns an int with the byte count, and serialPort.readString(event.getEventValue()) get the String format from those bytes.
Note that this method does not return a full line, so you need to listen to carriage return and line feed characters. Once you find "\r\n", you can get the line, and reset the StringBuilder for the next one:
sb.append(serialPort.readString(event.getEventValue()));
String str=sb.toString();
if(str.endsWith("\r\n")){
line.set(str.substring(0,str.indexOf("\r\n")));
sb=new StringBuilder();
}
where line is an observable String:
final StringProperty line=new SimpleStringProperty("");
On the Arduino side, if you want to send values from different sensors at different rates, I suggest you define on the Arduino sketch some identification string for each sensor, and you print for each value the id of its sensor.
For instance, these will be the readings you will get with the serial event listener:
ID1,val1
ID1,val2
ID2,val3
ID1,val4
ID3,val5
...
Finally, on the JavaFX thread, define a listener to changes in line and process the String to get the sensor and the value. Something like this:
serial.getLine().addListener(
(ObservableValue<? extends String> observable, String oldValue, String newValue) -> {
Platform.runLater(()->{
String[] data=newValue.split("\\,");
if(data[0].equals("ID1"){
// add to chart from sensor 1, value data[1];
} else if(data[0].equals("ID2"){
// add to chart from sensor 2, value data[1];
} else if(data[0].equals("ID3"){
// add to chart from sensor 3, value data[1];
}
});
});
Note you need to add Platform.runLater(), since the thread that gets the data from serial port and updates line is not on the JavaFX thread.
From my experience, on the Arduino side, add a comma or something to separate the different values when you print and when you receive that string in Java simply split that string by commas.
String[] stringSeparate = str.split(",");
I want to create an application wide feed on my ASP.net 3.5 web site using the application cache. The data that I am using to populate the cache is slow to obtain, maybe up to 10 seconds (from a remote server's data feed). My question/confusion is, what is the best way to structure the cache management.
private const string CacheKey = "MyCachedString";
private static string lockString = "";
public string GetCachedString()
{
string data = (string)Cache[CacheKey];
string newData = "";
if (data == null)
{
// A - Should this method call go here?
newData = SlowResourceMethod();
lock (lockString)
{
data = (string)Cache[CacheKey];
if (data != null)
{
return data;
}
// B - Or here, within the lock?
newData = SlowResourceMethod();
Cache[CacheKey] = data = newData;
}
}
return data;
}
The actual method would be presented by and HttpHandler (.ashx).
If I collect the data at point 'A', I keep the lock time short, but might end up calling the external resource many times (from web pages all trying to reference the feed). If I put it at point 'B', the lock time will be long, which I am assuming is a bad thing.
What is the best approach, or is there a better pattern that I could use?
Any advice would be appreciated.
I add the comments on the code.
private const string CacheKey = "MyCachedString";
private static readonly object syncLock = new object();
public string GetCachedString()
{
string data = (string)Cache[CacheKey];
string newData = "";
// start to check if you have it on cache
if (data == null)
{
// A - Should this method call go here?
// absolut not here
// newData = SlowResourceMethod();
// we are now here and wait for someone else to make it or not
lock (syncLock)
{
// now lets see if some one else make it...
data = (string)Cache[CacheKey];
// we have it, send it
if (data != null)
{
return data;
}
// not have it, now is the time to look for it.
// B - Or here, within the lock?
newData = SlowResourceMethod();
// set it on cache
Cache[CacheKey] = data = newData;
}
}
return data;
}
Better for me is to use mutex and lock depended on the name CacheKey and not lock all resource and the non relative one. With mutex one basic simple example will be:
private const string CacheKey = "MyCachedString";
public string GetCachedString()
{
string data = (string)Cache[CacheKey];
string newData = "";
// start to check if you have it on cache
if (data == null)
{
// lock it base on resource key
// (note that not all chars are valid for name)
var mut = new Mutex(true, CacheKey);
try
{
// Wait until it is safe to enter.
// but also add 30 seconds max
mut.WaitOne(30000);
// now lets see if some one else make it...
data = (string)Cache[CacheKey];
// we have it, send it
if (data != null)
{
return data;
}
// not have it, now is the time to look for it.
// B - Or here, within the lock?
newData = SlowResourceMethod();
// set it on cache
Cache[CacheKey] = data = newData;
}
finally
{
// Release the Mutex.
mut.ReleaseMutex();
}
}
return data;
}
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Using the twaindotnet library in C#, I'm wondering if there's a way to set the default datasource using the library.
As a feeble attempt, I've tried adding a SetDefault method to the DataSource class of twaindonet, like this
public static void SetDefault(Identity applicationId, IWindowsMessageHook messageHook, DataSource newDataSource)
{
var defaultSourceId = newDataSource.SourceId;
// Attempt to get information about the system default source
var result = Twain32Native.DsmIdentity(
applicationId,
IntPtr.Zero,
DataGroup.Control,
DataArgumentType.Identity,
Message.Set,
defaultSourceId);
if (result != TwainResult.Success)
{
var status = DataSourceManager.GetConditionCode(applicationId, null);
throw new TwainException("Error getting information about the default source: " + result, result, status);
}
}
which is called from the DataSourceManage class like this
public void SelectSource(DataSource dataSource)
{
DataSource.Dispose();
DataSource.SetDefault(ApplicationId, _messageHook, dataSource);
}
But when I try to use SetDefault, Twain32Native.DsmIdentity always results in Failure being returned.
I basically copied from SetDefault the setDefaultDataSource method from TWAIN sample Data Source and Application
pTW_IDENTITY TwainApp::setDefaultDataSource(unsigned int _index)
{
if(m_DSMState < 3)
{
cout << "You need to open the DSM first." << endl;
return NULL;
}
else if(m_DSMState > 3)
{
PrintCMDMessage("A source has already been opened, please close it first\n");
return NULL;
}
if(_index >= 0 && _index < m_DataSources.size())
{
m_pDataSource = &(m_DataSources[_index]);
// set the specific data source
TW_UINT16 twrc;
twrc = _DSM_Entry(
&m_MyInfo,
0,
DG_CONTROL,
DAT_IDENTITY,
MSG_SET,
(TW_MEMREF) m_pDataSource);
switch (twrc)
{
case TWRC_SUCCESS:
break;
case TWRC_FAILURE:
printError(0, "Failed to get the data source info!");
break;
}
}
else
{
return NULL;
}
return m_pDataSource;
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The possible cause is that the version of your TWAIN DSM is too low. Only DSM 2.0 or above supports setting default TWAIN data source.
Using GraphEdit, I can add the filter to the editor and use it to render a video. When I create the instance via COM (using DirectShow.NET), the method EnumPins (followed by Next checks) returns no pins.
Is there a reason why GraphEdit would show the pins and I cannot get a reference to the pins via the COM interfaces?
EDIT: Here is the method I am using to get the first available pin (of any type). Nothing is ever returned for this filter, but I can see 4 pins (two in, two out) in graph edit.
public static IPin GetPins(IBaseFilter vSource, int iIndex)
{
IEnumPins pins;
var ppPins = new IPin[1];
if (vSource == null)
return null;
DsError.ThrowExceptionForHR(vSource.EnumPins(out pins));
try
{
while (pins.Next(1, ppPins, IntPtr.Zero) == 0)
{
return ppPins[0];
}
}
finally
{
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(pins);
}
return null;
}
Below code specifies that we we can make http connection in blackberry and how to store html page as a string?
I am doing this but I am able to get that http request but when I get response i.e http_ok it is not correct so that I can save text oh html as a string and I can further store that into sqlite.
LabelField title = new LabelField("SQLite Create Database Sample",
LabelField.ELLIPSIS |
LabelField.USE_ALL_WIDTH);
setTitle(title);
add(new RichTextField("Creating a database."));
argURL="https://www.google.com:80";
try {
connDesc = connFact.getConnection(argURL);
if (connDesc != null) {
httpConn = (HttpConnection) connDesc.getConnection();
// //Send Data on this connection
// httpConn.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.GET);
// //Server Response
StringBuffer strBuffer = new StringBuffer();
inStream = httpConn.openInputStream();
int chr;
int retResponseCode = httpConn.getResponseCode();
if (retResponseCode == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) {
if (inStream != null) {
while ((chr = inStream.read()) != -1) {
strBuffer.append((char) chr);
}
serverResponceStr = strBuffer.toString();
// appLe.alertForms.get_userWaitAlertForm().append("\n"+serverResponceStr);
//returnCode = gprsConstants.retCodeSuccess;
}
} else {
//returnCode = gprsConstants.retCodeNOK;
}
}
} catch (Exception excp) {
//returnCode = gprsConstants.retCodeDisconn;
excp.printStackTrace();
} `enter code here`
The code does not perform any database functionality, however I tested and it does successfully perform an HttpRequest to an external URL. The data that comes back is based on the response of the server you are making the request to.
The code I used can be found here:
http://snipt.org/vrl7
The only modifications is to keep a running summary of various events, and the response is displayed in the RichTextField. Basically, this looks to be working as intended, and the resulting String should be able to be saved however you see fit; though you may need to be cautious of encoding when saving to a database so that special characters are not lost or misinterpreted.