yes it is possible, there is code available written in Java, C#, C++, and C to read/write data from/to a serial port. The wiring board is seen by the computer as an additional serial port, so data can be transfered from/to the board as it is done through any serial connection. Do you have a particulat language need?

hi, yes, the Wiring development environment is written in Java and here is the source code for Serial.java file which has the code to open read/write from.to the serial port. http://wiring.org.co/source/trunk/wiring/app/

There are many libs in the net, here is one afriend has used: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libserial/ let me know.

janes, could you post them? we can link them to your site, that would be great.

Hello,

my first post so please be gentle  

I got my Wiring board last week and have so far used ActionScript, PHP, C++, c# and Processing to communicate with Wiring.

For c# I have been using the free Visual C# Express Edition http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/express/aa700756.aspx and also Visual Studio 2005. Here is a quick console app I put together that uses the System.IO.Ports namespace to communicate with Wiring. You should be able to get a good idea of the basics from this.

Highlighted c#/Wiring code: http://www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/~fraser/wiring/wiringChat.html
c# source code: http://www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/~fraser/wiring/wiringChat.cs
Wiring code http://www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/~fraser/wiring/wiringChat.pde

The applicaiton uses System.Threading to read data from wiring on a separate thread to the main console. It also uses the System.Management namespace and a WMI query to get a more detailed information about the COM ports than System.IO.Ports provides (...go figure). I wanted this info because I'm developing a Windows application that automatically connects to Wiring when it is available.

I have some more complex Multi-threaded Form based Applications in c# that I have been working on as well. I'll post links when I upload them. I'm also in the process of setting up a little site for my experiments, again, I'll post a link to it when it's up.

Anyway, any feed back is more than welcome.

Hi,

Thanks barragan.

No worries about sharing the code, it's a pleasure to be able to contribute to the community. I had a look through the serial lib. buffer.c is beautiful! There I was just making hard for myself...

I see I could reduce the Wiring code for this example to something like.  (...off the top of my head here, not tested!)

Code:

// Serial Input
void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
  if(Serial.available()) {    
    while (Serial.available()){
	Serial.print(Serial.read());
    }
    Serial.println();
  }
  delay(1000); // wait 1 second  
}
 

Thanks for pointing that out!

p.s.
I cleaned up and modified the code highlighting for the wiringChat example:
http://www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/~fraser/wiring/wiringChat.html

Also, I have created a simplified version without the additional namespaces. This should be easier for people to follow
http://www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/~fraser/wiring/wiringSimpleChat.html

Great! I will link them from the tutorials as well. Thanks for the good work and contribution