Reading from a Serial Port (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/6/2010
An application calls the ReadFile function to receive data from a device at the other end of a serial connection.
ReadFile takes the same parameters as the WriteFile function.
Typically, a read operation is a separate thread that is always ready to process data arriving at a serial port. A communication event signals the read thread that there is data to read at a serial port. Then the read thread waits for another communication event.
Typically, an application waits for an EV_RXCHAR and then reads (with a very short timeout) all data that is available.
For more information about communication events, see Using Communication Events.
To read from a serial port
Pass the port handle to ReadFile in the hFile parameter.
The CreateFile function returns this handle when an application opens a port.
Specify a pointer to receive the data that is read in lpBuffer.
Specify the number of characters to read in nNumberOfBytesToRead.
Specify a pointer to a location where ReadFile will store the number of bytes read in lpNumberOfBytesRead.
Be sure that lpOverlapped is NULL.
Windows Embedded CE does not support overlapped I/O.
The following code example shows how to receive data using the ReadFile function.
BYTE Byte;
DWORD dwBytesTransferred;
ReadFile (hPort, // Port handle
&Byte, // Pointer to data to read
1, // Number of bytes to read
&dwBytesTransferred, // Pointer to number of bytes
// read
NULL // Must be NULL for Windows Embeddded CE
);