Title: Reterive installed comports
Question: I want to know what comports that is installed in a system.
I also want to check if the comport is availible and free to use.
Answer:
// Use GetcomPortList to reterive a list of installed Comport is the system.
// Calling with "AOnlyAvail = true" will reterive a list containing only
// comports that is free and availible to use.
//
// Example: GetComPortList(Listbox1.Items,true);
//
// You will need Registry & Windows in your uses clause.
//
// For more information about Comports and how to use it:
// Check the Comport project on sourceforge
// http://sourceforge.net/projects/comport
function ValidateComPort(ComPort : PChar) : boolean;
var PortHandle : THandle;
begin
PortHandle := CreateFile(ComPort,GENERIC_READ OR GENERIC_WRITE,0,nil,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,0);
if (PortHandle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) then begin
result := false;
end else begin
result := true;
CloseHandle(PortHandle);
end;
end;
procedure GetComPortList(AList : TStrings; AOnlyAvail : boolean = false);
var AReg : TRegistry;
ADeviceList : TStrings;
lp0 : integer;
AAddPort : boolean;
ACurrPort : string;
begin
if Assigned(AList) then begin
AReg := TRegistry.Create;
try
AReg.RootKey := HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
AReg.OpenKeyReadOnly('hardware\devicemap\serialcomm');
ADeviceList := TStringList.Create;
try
AReg.GetValueNames(ADeviceList);
AList.Clear;
for lp0 := 0 to ADeviceList.Count-1 do begin
ACurrPort := AReg.ReadString(ADeviceList.Strings[lp0]);
if AOnlyAvail then begin
AAddPort := ValidateComPort(PChar(ACurrPort));
end else AAddPort := true;
if AAddPort then AList.Add(ACurrPort);
end;
finally
ADeviceList.Free;
end;
AReg.CloseKey;
finally
AReg.free;
end;
end;
end;