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fatygant



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fatygant 17 Jun 2013, 16:10
I am trying to get the number of serial ports available on a given machine. The method I decided to use is iterating over registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM.
The assembly code for this is very simple:

Code:
virtual at rbx
  myRS232Ctrl RS232CTRL
end virtual

proc RS232Ctrl.GetPortNames
        local hKey:DWORD
        invoke  RegOpenKeyEx,\
                        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,\
                        'HARDWARE\\DEVICEMAP\\SERIALCOMM',\
                        0,\
                        KEY_READ,\
                        addr hKey
        invoke  RegQueryInfoKey,\
                        [hKey],\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        addr myRS232Ctrl.dwPortCount,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL,\
                        NULL
        ret
endp
    

Initially I was developing my app on Windows 8 machine with MOXXA PCI-E card with two serial ports. And the above routine worked fluently. But today I switched developing to Windows 7 machine with one onboard serial port. And the result of running the above code is 0 instead of 1. I checked the Registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM on both machines and I can find the proper entries there. But on Windows 7 the entry is not enumerated.

Anyone has an idea why it behaves differently on two latest Windows editions?
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fatygant



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fatygant 18 Jun 2013, 09:27
Ok - forget it. The RS232Ctrl.GetPortNames is longer than I attached above and the bug was not connected with the part I initially blamed. Shame on me for suspecting Microsoft... Smile
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revolution 18 Jun 2013, 12:50
fatygant wrote:
Ok - forget it. The RS232Ctrl.GetPortNames is longer than I attached above and the bug was not connected with the part I initially blamed. Shame on me for suspecting Microsoft... Smile
Thanks for updating us with the cancellation. We would have had to ask for more code anyway since what you posted was insufficient for us to test with.
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