How to detect a new serial port has been created ...

[Roman Novgorodov]

Hello

Every time when your windows system changes its hardware configuration, it sends WM_DEVICECHANGE message for all runned applications.

You can process this message in your main form like it is done in the following code:

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unit Unit1;
interface
  ...
Type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
   ...
  public       
    procedure WMDeviceChange(var Msg:TMessage); message WM_DEVICECHANGE;     
  end;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}
...

procedure TForm1.WMDeviceChange(var Msg: TMessage);
begin
  nrComm1.WMDeviceChange(Msg);
end;

end.



The TnrComm class and most of other classes from nrComm Lib have method WMDeviceChange() that helps to process WM_DEVICECHANGE message and reloads internal device list of component.

Roman Novgorodov
DeepSoftware.Com

is there a way for the application to detect a new port has been
created, like when a USB-RS232 cable is plugged in?  Or should I just poll
for it?