"Supported" solution to enumerate and use serial ports
Hello, I’m using Qt for industrial applications, and serial port communications are one of the most important parts of our software.
Qt4 doesn’t seem to have an “official” or “supported” library for this, so I resorted to qextserialport (http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/), which seems to work fairly well so far. However, the project seems stalled (Last commit was in Frebruary 2010) and it starts so show some age: i.e. it fails to compile out of the box on Windows when using a Qt library installed from one of the new QtSDK packages, as qextserialport uses internal Qt4 headers, and the source directory has changed in the QtSDK packages.
I’m also worried about the portability of QtSDK. Will it work on all the platforms Qt4 supports? I’m planning ports of our software for Linux Embedded and WindowsCE, and finding qextserialport doesn’t work there would be a huge issue.
In short: are there plans to merge qextserialport into mainstream Qt4, and/or is there any “supported” alternative that will work anywhere Qt4 does?
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Hi all.
I have good news for people who need a library that supports the serial ports.
I recently suggested that the library QSerialDevice 2.0:
https://gitorious.org/qserialdevice/qserialdevice/trees/2.0
as a supplement (addon) to Qt. Programmers from Nokia has kindly agreed to take it.
Of course, if all goes well, and Nokia will not forget about my suggestion – that the library will be part of Qt. :)
Of course, much will have to modify and hold a deep refactoring. Currently it supports Windows, WinCE, GNU / Linux, MacOSX, other * nix, partialy Symbian.
We need help to develop. So who is interested – please help the project. At the moment, an urgent need for implementation for Symbian.
Hi all.I have good news for people who need a library that supports the serial ports.
I recently suggested that the library QSerialDevice 2.0:
https://gitorious.org/qserialdevice/qserialdevice/trees/2.0
as a supplement (addon) to Qt. Programmers from Nokia has kindly agreed to take it.
Of course, if all goes well, and Nokia will not forget about my suggestion – that the library will be part of Qt. :)Of course, much will have to modify and hold a deep refactoring. Currently it supports Windows, WinCE, GNU / Linux, MacOSX, other * nix, partialy Symbian.
We need help to develop. So who is interested – please help the project. At the moment, an urgent need for implementation for Symbian.
Possibly you shall have a look to this thread [developer.qt.nokia.com]
There are a couple of issues not completely understood.
Hi All.
At last!
The Nokia cloning repository QSerialDevice 2.0 to codereview.qt-project.org
Now the whole development will be there.
Developers can get a clone of this:
$ git clone ssh://codereview.qt-project.org:29418/playground/qtserialport.git
We ask all interested to take part in the development of the project.
More
this [wiki.qt-project.org]
and
this [wiki.qt-project.org]
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