Return cursor

alexz · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 133 Location: UK

I am sending data through the RS232 and read it using some terminal.
When I read it as a string and send WriteByte('\n');
WriteByte('\r');
the cursor is returned to the begining of the next row.
How can I do the similar thing when reading it as HEX in the terminal?
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asmallri · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 1634 Location: Perth, Australia

You are doing this the wrong way around. Traditional terminals send the end of line sequence <CR><LF> being carriage return and line feed respectively. Most applications expect a line to be terminated either with a <CR> or a <CR><LF> Lots of applications fail when the <LF> preceeds the <CR>

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alexz · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 133 Location: UK

If you meant how do you get a terminal display that is showing the hex representation of characters to display a carriage return and line feed then the answer is you cannot because in hex mode it will desplay the hex value of these control characters[/quote]

Yes, thats what I meant.
Bad news.
Is there a terminal which allows me to do that?
I mean to see numbers in HEX but with returning the carriage after certain amount of sent bytes.
In other words to vombine the HEX view and string together
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SherpaDoug · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 1640 Location: Cape Cod Mass USA

Termial by Br@y can display both ASCII and Hex (and binary and decimal) simultaniously.
http://bray.velenje.cx/avr/terminal
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alexz · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 133 Location: UK

SherpaDoug · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 1640 Location: Cape Cod Mass USA

At the right side of the Receive window there are three check boxes, "Dec", "Hex", and "Bin". Check what you want to see.
Warning: I suspect that if I check them all and the serial data comes in real fast, ie. high baud rate, long strings, small inter-character spacing, on my PC I may miss an occasional character. Therefore don't display all formats if you don't need them.
This is my favorite serial comms program!
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alexz · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 133 Location: UK

SherpaDoug · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 1640 Location: Cape Cod Mass USA

The main Receive window shows the ASCII values of the bytes, and executes the <CR> and <LF> characters. Simultaniously the Hex window shows the hexadecimal values of the bytes, executing nothing.
What else are you looking for?

P.S. I just noticed the latest version has custom baud rates! So now if your clock is 5% slow you can use 9120 baud instead of 9600. I haven't seen that in a serial program since DOS days! I'll have to test it to see what the granularity is at high baud rates.
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alexz · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 133 Location: UK

asmallri · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 1634 Location: Perth, Australia

Hi Alex,

What you are asking for does not make sense because on one hand you would like to see the hexidecimal value of a character and on the other you want the application to respond to control characters. If the application was to correctly interpret <CR> and <LF> then you would expect it to also correctly interpret cursor commands up, down, left, right, erase to EOL, erase to BOL etc. You can't have it both ways :-)
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