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Hello, Kenneth,

Actually, this response of yours was by far the most constructive and it finally shed light on some questions I had asked, and also guided me towards a more efficient way of communication - I did not realize I could get support via email, I was directed to the forum when I searched ...

Hello,

That shouldn't be very difficult to implement and would cause no backwards-compatibility problems.
I have a different opinion. You are talking about doing a change in a firmware from a device, that is being sell thousands of times and about a change in an API that potentially include a ...

Thank you, I understand. It is not about the effort writing a few extra lines of code. It is about stability and future-proofing. What if in future editions of PCAN-Basic there are new types of handles? Like, for a new communications bus. We'd have to add code to support it. As opposed to having a ...

It'd be just a distraction to install and figure out a trial software for a few days. I get the hardware tomorrow.

Kamen

Is there are better way of enumerating the CAN bus communication channels available in a system than simply probing in order: PCAN_PCIBUS1, PCAN_PCIBUS2, ..., PCAN_PCIBUS16, PCAN_USBBUS1, PCAN_USBBUS2, ..., PCAN_USBBUS16, and so on? Those aren't even consecutive numbers, even though, one shouldn't ...

I want to point out that the C# part of the API employs using alias directives to define aliases to support PEAK-specific naming conventions and in the process ends up hiding system types in Intellisense QuickInfo.

For instance, in the PCANBasic.cs file, there is this directive:
using ...

Thank you, Michael,

For now I will only have one PCIe board to try, but I'd like to know this would work for when the issue comes up in production. So, let me make sure I understand how this would work, if I followed the described approach to map device channels to handles:

Let's say I've mapped ...

Thanks, Michael, but I will receive my actual hardware next week; I just needed something until then.
Kamen

I have just started looking at the PCAN-Basic (I haven't even received my hardware yet), so I'm sure I'm just unable to find this, but what is the proper way to address multiple devices in the same computer? For example, if I have two PCAN-PCI Express 2ch, how do I initialize them so that I could ...

Thank you, Michael! I thought it might be something like that. Could I get the NetConfiguration Tool or is it only part of a commercial software package? I'm only developing support for PEAK CAN interfaces, not simulating entire CAN networks or anything of the sorts.
Kamen