[Rxtx] loopback puzzle

[Dr. Stephen Judd]

AH!  great.
So my mental model was reasonable, but ahead of its time.
Now how do I adjust my mental image? Does rebooting the machine
change anything? How do I get to those new ports?!
sj

On 2006 Sep 11, at 7:00 PM, Trent Jarvi wrote:

>
> Hi Stephen
>
> The CommAPI 'specification' was written before ports could vanish and
> appear.  There isn't a means of catching 'hotplug' events yet.  For  
> all
> practical purposes, the hardware should not change while using CommAPI
> 2.0.  This shortfall has been discussed as a possible addition to  
> future
> 'standards' which rxtx will support.  For now, you have to adjust your
> mental image :)
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Dr. Stephen Judd wrote:
>
>> Many thanks to Dr. Lyon, Joachim Buechse, and Bob Jacobsen.
>>
>> Building on what I have learned from this group, my mental model has
>> arrived at the point where I believe that the mere plugging in of  
>> a port
>> expander (like the DUAL PORT USB to Serial RS-232 DB-9 Adapter Cable)
>> will automagically change the list of ports available to
>> CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers().
>>
>> Experiments say this is not true however. Using same SerialDemo as
>> described below, the list does not change, even after plugging a  
>> live device
>> into one of the resulting RS-232 ports, and restarting the app.
>>
>> What's broken now? my hardware? or still my head?
>> sj
>>
>> On 2006 Sep 7, at 8:40 AM, Dr. Douglas Lyon wrote: