Serial Communication Toolbox for Scilab
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This toolbox enables the use of Serial Communication in
[Scilab](http://www.scilab.org/) and
[Scicoslab](http://www.scicoslab.org/).
This is a port of the __Portable Serial Toolbox__ for Scilab originally written
by [Enrico Segre](http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fesegre/)
and has been ported
to Scilab 5.x and released with his kind permission. It is licensed, at his
request, under the GPLv3.
Enrico does not wish to provide support for this
toolbox anymore. Therefore, for any support related queries or otherwise,
please raise an issue on the
[Github project page](https://github.com/sengupta/Scilab-Serial/).
You can reach me at [this address](mailto:aditya@sengupta.me), but I would
prefer you raise an issue on Github for problems with the toolbox.
This toolbox is known to have worked so far on Linux based systems and on
Windows (up till Windows 7).
The implementation via TCL wrappers is certainly suboptimal, but shouldn't be
such
a penalty, given the low bandwidth and the intrinsic asynchronous mode of serial
communication. And mainly, it relieves the developer from supporting many
platforms
at once.
Release Notes:
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15/4/2012:
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v.0.4: Toolbox updated to be compatible with Scilab 5.4
14/5/2011:
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(First Release by Aditya Sengupta)
v.0.3: Toolbox is now compatible with Scilab 5.x, along with help files.
12/1/2009:
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(Final Release by Enrico Segre)
v.0.2: corrected version after report of [bug
3829](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3829):
readserial/writeserial
confused by strings containing nonprintable ascii characters,
Toolbox essentially still geared for scilab 4.x (4.1.2, scicoslab) in the sense
that:
- ``builder.sce`` and ``loader.sce`` make use of ``xmltohtml()``,
``add_help_chapter()``; xml files are based on the 4.x dtd (IF I would be able
to make doc in scilab5 I might even consider to package a new help page set
together with the old)
- in many points the detour ``TCL_EvalStr("set answ [....]");
TCL_GetVar("answ")`` is still implemented (was mandatory prior to [request
319](http://requestzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319)),
it is not required
since scilab 4.1.2
However, the toolbox is reported to work with Scilab 5.0.2 final [I suppose,
without help pages readable in the help widget, but that's minor; html files
provided, anyway]