GuruxSerial offers an easy way to build multithreaded, serial communication applications.

Notifications of errors, media state changes, and received data, give you ways and means to utilize triggered events. Build-in, resettable counters, for sent and received bytes, make it easy to follow up the data traffic. You can set the component to send data synchronously or asynchronously. You can also select any of many, various combinations of amount of data bits, and stop bits, as well as options of parity, DTR and RTS.

Before using GXSerial

You need to set at least following properties:

• Port
• BitRate
• FlowControl

Port is set by selecting the name of the serial port to use in communication, by default it is COM1. Bit rate is set by selecting the amount of bits per second, by default 9600, and flow control can be set to either disabled, software, or hardware. All the obligatory properties are collected to be set in an easy-to-use dialog. That is a simple and secure way to assure all is set, when starting to use the component.

Notifications
When using GXSerial component, always listen to OnError event, as all errors that occur after the connection is established, are sent through this method. Received data is received through OnReceived event.

Using the GuruxSerial component with different development tools, such as Access, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java ,Visual C++, c# (csharp), VB.NET (Visual Basic.NET) and Managed C++ is very easy. With the component you get a Visual Basic sample that shows how to use the communication technique. Gurux communication medias have been made on the Windows API interface. Due to this, the components are very efficient and do not require external libraries or DLL files to operate. GuruxSerial is light and fast because it is based on the standard Windows serial comm API.

Main benefits

• Open Source
• Components are easy to use.
• Requires no external libraries.
• Components are small and efficient.
• Supports Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Works with all versions of Visual Basic and VB.NET.
• Easy to use with VBScript and Java Script.