[Rxtx] CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers() takes a long, time

Adrian Crum adrian.crum at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 29 05:42:55 MDT 2010


--- On Thu, 10/28/10, HowardZ at howardz.com <HowardZ at howardz.com> wrote:
>  On a Microsoft Windows operating
> system there is no need for port testing/searching.
> For a variety of reasons it is rather stupid to do this
> port testing on a windows system.
> In the windows' registry is a list of all available com
> ports.
> 
> I modified my own copy of rxtx to look into the windows
> registry - if running on a ms windows system.

The rewrite uses that approach and it works great! I see no reason not to include it in the 2.x version.

-Adrian



      



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