Data Stream

[OnlyCurious]

I was wondering if anyone has done any kind of data stream through ports?

I'm not really sure what "data stream" is, but this is how this one guy explained it: you have data continuously being fed to one of you ports and you take that information and manipulate it...

How can I set up a data stream on my PC?

edit: so I would need a source of the data stream and I would be receiving the data... anyone have any ideas?

 

[S0ULphIRE]

depends what kind of data you're talking about, and what type of port.
I.E I built a remote control, basically sends a wireless signal from the control to a receiver, which is connected to a pic. The pic sends the data it receives to the RX pin on the serial port on the computer. I coded the pic using C++.

A data stream is just a 'stream' or 'long line' of data. What that data is depends on what you're sending. E.g I was just sending ascii characters, then assigning them shortcuts in media player classic.

If you need more help, you'd need to be a little more specific in terms of WHAT exactly you're trying to do. Or what you WANT to try to do.

 

[kmote]

Stream and datagram are the two main connection styles for all sockets (which could be over a network or it could be local). This is something which the application does as part of it's programming, you don't need to do anything.

 

[OnlyCurious]

Hey guys,

I just want to see how data stream works. I'll be happy with getting some kind of data stream to a port on my computer and then manipulating the incoming data with C++... (I'll be happy with just reading the incoming stream with C++ and outputting it to a text file).

Is there something like this I can do on my PC? Which libraries in C++ would you use for this?

 

[kmote]

Not sure about c++ but it's socket.h in c