Sam,

I have tried this myself with VC++ and found it a bit of a nightmare. In =
the end I opted for using VB ver 6, with the module MSCOMM. There are som=
e very good examples. You could use one of the ONCOMM events to detect fo=
r a TX.
I managed to write my modest program in about 4 hrs after reading this. S=
ome of the documentation is a bit hard to find but it its there.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q262/8/83.ASP

Regards

Gary

sam woolf wrote:

> I'm having a bit of a nightmare doing serial port communication between=
 a computer and a 16f84. The pic is sending data at 19200 baud to the com=
puter. I have been using a c program based on craig peacock's at www.beyo=
ndlogic.org/serial/termpoll.c . But unfortunately I am losing significant=
 amounts of data. I think this is because the code needs to be interrupt =
driven but I can't get the interrupt driven version (www.beyondlogic.org/=
serial/buff1024.c )to work... My compiler does not like the weird pointer=
-to-function or whatever it is stuff going on with the interrupt function=
 and I cant get my head around what its supposed to be doing either... I'=
m using microsoft visual c++ 5.0 and have already had to make several adj=
ustments such as changing all the inportb()s to _inp()s... does anyone kn=
ow what I need to do to make this work, or does anyone have any simple to=
 understand and working microsoft visual c++ 5.0 code for doing interrupt=
 driven serial comms?? I know this is slightly off topic but I am at my w=
its end!!
> SW
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