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    Default List serial ports in Qt application on windows and Mac

    I am creating one Qt based application for windows and Mac OS X. I used Qextserial port to connect and communicate through serial port it works well.

    But now I need to list existing serial ports in a system like "COM1" "COM2" etc.

    How I can do this in Qt, is there any native C++ code available to list existing serial ports in a system that i can include in Qt application

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    Default Re: List serial ports in Qt application on windows and Mac

    Did you read the QextSerialPort documentation? There are only two classes and the bit about QextSerialEnumerator will be illuminating.

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    Default Re: List serial ports in Qt application on windows and Mac

    I didn't understand. Is there any function to get existing serial ports in a system

    There is no function available to list existing serial ports in QExtserilport. They are simply hard coded the portnames

    They are used like this
    port = new QextSerialPort("COM1");

    but i need to get this "COM1" from system

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    Default Re: List serial ports in Qt application on windows and Mac

    From the link posted by Chris:
    QextSerialEnumerator enumerates ports currently available in the system.
    QextSerialEnumerator::getPorts
    Get list of ports.

    return list of ports currently available in the system.
    Qt Assistant -- rocks!
    please, use tags [CODE] & [/CODE].

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    Default Re: List serial ports in Qt application on windows and Mac

    As they say in English: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."
    <=== The Great Pumpkin says ===>
    Please use CODE tags when posting source code so it is more readable. Click "Go Advanced" and then the "#" icon to insert the tags. Paste your code between them.

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    Thank you all, I didn't noticed that earlier
    Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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