[Vm-dev] [VM-team] SerialPort updates (M7266) actions required

[John M McIntosh]

Well Macs don't have serial ports, at least not the ones that were  
built after 1998.
The macintosh serial port source just stubs out the logic when we  
moved from Carbon to OS-X in 2002.
I do note where people use *serial* device like things is for MIDI,  
but the MIDI plugin for OS-X talks to the
quicktime interface when interacts with the USB *serial* like midi  
devices.

However once Ian confirms the changes are done, I can just swap in the  
unix serial support which
might help some folks that have obscure serial like USB devices.

Lastly there are some USB plugins around that let folks talk to USB  
devices (very custom needs).



On 22-Aug-09, at 1:28 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> John:
>  - Update platforms/Mac OS/plugins/SerialPlugin/sqMacSerialPort.c,  
> same as
>    for Windows (see above).
>  - I don't know how OS X handles serial devices, but you may be able  
> consider
>    using the Unix code at this point.
>
> Thanks all!

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