help wanted from Windows and Mac experts...

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:

> On 28 October 2012 06:21, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> This is especially true for the Uemis Zurich - it shows up as a USB
>> drive with the name UEMISSDA. I know how to figure out the correct mount
>> point on Linux and Mac (at least I think so - we'll know once more
>> people try the code I wrote), but I can't figure out how to do that on
>> Windows. There must be a reasonably straight forward way to get the
>> right drive letter for a USB drive of that name... maybe my Google foo
>> was lacking today, but I couldn't figure this out. Help appreciated.
>> 
> 
> i guess, i could try helping out with that.
> so DCs support both USB and COM ports?

There are old cables that connect to serial ports. There are almost no computers that even HAVE serial ports anymore, so this will soon go away :-)
Most cables today connect to USB. All computers that I've heard of (with the exception of the Uemis Zurich) appear to show up as serial over USB devices - so /dev/ttyUSBx on Linux.
And the Uemis Zurich shows up as USB storage device :-)

> if so this will mean that we have to go trough the list of USB drives,
> find any known labels such as "UEMISSDA" (from a static table) add

I believe that table has just one entry right now (which is what you see me do in the linux.c and macosx.c files)

> them to the combo. then also grab the list of COM ports from the
> registry and add them as well.
> 
> such lists will look like:
> H:\ (UEMISSDA)
> COM1
> COM3
> 
> is this the correct logic?

YES. That is EXACTLY what I am looking for.

> i already have test code that does the above, but hopefully a single
> combo box with multiple device types will not be confusing.

I don't think so. It looks good on Linux when I connect all my dive computers :-)

/D