Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 89, Issue 1

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>    1. Serial port write freezes the VM (mactro)
>    2. Re: Serial port write freezes the VM (Levente Uzonyi)
>    3. Re: Serial port write freezes the VM (Maciej Troszy?ski)
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> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 05:35:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: mactro <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Newbies] Serial port write freezes the VM
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> Hi,
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> I'm developing a mod for Scratch that will allow controlling an educational
> robot via Bluetooth. I'm using SerialPort2 class that is included in
> Scratch
> plugin and allows opening ports by name. Everything works fine BUT, when I
> send commands in a loop, and the connection is lost (i.e. the robot was
> powered off), the VM freezes. I tried forking the port nextPutAll like
> that:
>
> timer := Delay forMilliseconds: 1000.
> port := SerialPort2  new.
> port openPortNamed:'COM14' baud:57600.
> process := [port nextPutAll:'test'. Transcript show:'port'.] forkAt: 1.
> [timer wait. Transcript show:'delay'. process terminate.] forkAt: 7.
>
> but with no result. Is there any way to write to a serial port with
> timeout?
>
> mactro
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> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:45:35 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Levente Uzonyi <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Serial port write freezes the VM
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> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, mactro wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm developing a mod for Scratch that will allow controlling an
>> educational
>> robot via Bluetooth. I'm using SerialPort2 class that is included in
>> Scratch
>> plugin and allows opening ports by name. Everything works fine BUT, when
>> I
>> send commands in a loop, and the connection is lost (i.e. the robot was
>> powered off), the VM freezes. I tried forking the port nextPutAll like
>> that:
>>
>> timer := Delay forMilliseconds: 1000.
>> port := SerialPort2  new.
>> port openPortNamed:'COM14' baud:57600.
>> process := [port nextPutAll:'test'. Transcript show:'port'.] forkAt: 1.
>> [timer wait. Transcript show:'delay'. process terminate.] forkAt: 7.
>>
>> but with no result. Is there any way to write to a serial port with
>> timeout?
>
> I can't help you with the SerialPort issue, but the process priorities 1
> and 7 are definitely bad. Since the idle process uses priority 10, your
> processes will never run. Try using something between 11 and 39, or use
> the named priorities:
> Processor userBackgroundPriority
> Processor systemBackgroundPriority
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> mactro
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:39:10 +0200
> From: Maciej Troszy?ski <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Serial port write freezes the VM
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> Well, at first I tried using larger numbers, but it seems, that my VM
> has maximum priority equal to 8. Processor userBackgroundPriority
> prints 3 and Processor userInterruptPriority prints 5.
>
>
> pozdrawiam
> Maciej Troszyński
>
>
> 2013/9/10 Levente Uzonyi <[hidden email]>:
>> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, mactro wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm developing a mod for Scratch that will allow controlling an
>>> educational
>>> robot via Bluetooth. I'm using SerialPort2 class that is included in
>>> Scratch
>>> plugin and allows opening ports by name. Everything works fine BUT, when
>>> I
>>> send commands in a loop, and the connection is lost (i.e. the robot was
>>> powered off), the VM freezes. I tried forking the port nextPutAll like
>>> that:
>>>
>>> timer := Delay forMilliseconds: 1000.
>>> port := SerialPort2  new.
>>> port openPortNamed:'COM14' baud:57600.
>>> process := [port nextPutAll:'test'. Transcript show:'port'.] forkAt: 1.
>>> [timer wait. Transcript show:'delay'. process terminate.] forkAt: 7.
>>>
>>> but with no result. Is there any way to write to a serial port with
>>> timeout?
>>
>>
>> I can't help you with the SerialPort issue, but the process priorities 1
>> and
>> 7 are definitely bad. Since the idle process uses priority 10, your
>> processes will never run. Try using something between 11 and 39, or use
>> the
>> named priorities:
>> Processor userBackgroundPriority
>> Processor systemBackgroundPriority
>>
>>
>> Levente
>>
>>
>>>
>>> mactro
>>>
>>>
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