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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Thinking about it a bit more, if someone wanted to filter the comports like this you could copy the standard comport IO driver and make a new plugin that only listed the outbound ports (you could also restrict the list to Bluetooth devices).
Internally the comport IO driver is just a plugin that gets compiled into the main exe (any plugin can be made into a built in, just add the source to the .pro file, add a call to the register function and now the extern plugin is built in).
So you could copy the existing comport IO driver, change the 'REGISTER_PLUGIN_FUNCTION_PRIV_NAME' and 'COMPORT_URI_PREFIX' defines to something else (so it doesn't conflict with the built in 'COM' one). Change the code so filter any comport that isn't for the Bluetooth device. Compile the source and package the resulting .dll using the ExternPluginMaker tool. Done
When the new plugin is installed the new connection dialog you will list your detected "devices" listed along with all the other types (you could prefix them with bluetooth for example).
Feel free to email me if you would like more details.
Comment · 1 year ago
It seems like I missed this option. I'll be adding it to the list of things to do for version 1.1 :)
Thanks for the feed back.
Comment · 1 year ago
There isn't any filtering of serial ports (it lists everything it finds).
However it does support bookmarks. With bookmarks you open the serial port you want to use then select to bookmark it. WhippyTerm will take the current config you are using and save it for later. You can then just pick the bookmark later to reopen that connection. Bookmarks also store some of the settings (like is it a binary or text connection, terminal size, colors, etc).
It's a lot like bookmarks in a web browser.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't have a mac. I did have a guy who was going to add support for it but he backed out.
The main GUI is built in QT so making a mac port shouldn't be too hard (the serial port detection would be the hardest part I think).
Comment · 1 year ago
It doesn't currently support it, but I was planning in the next release (a number of people have asked for it so it's a definitely going to add).
Comment · 1 year ago
New GUI based serial terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)
Hi all, just wanted to let everyone know of my new open-source serial (and TCP/IP) terminal program aimed at embedded developers.
I wasn't happy with what was available on Linux, so I decided to write my own. The goals were to have a modern GUI (tab based, pull out panels, etc) and I wanted support for binary protocols.
It has support for ANSI escape sequences, XModem (up/down), binary blocks, hex dumps, bridging 2 open connections, and more.
Source link: https://github.com/TheBeef/WhippyTerm
This is the first release (version 1.0), and I am hoping people will have a look (and hopefully like it).
After you have them installed and working all you have to do is load the .pro file from the Project directory (https://github.com/TheBeef/WhippyTerm/tree/main/Project) you should be able to just hit the green debug/go button and it should work (you do need to be using the gcc toolchain). This is the same for the Windows build.
Hope this helps.