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Hello Mathias,

Matthias W. wrote: is the PCANBasic API thread safe? Can the functions for reading/writing of messages be called from concurrent threads?

yes, it is. In the PCAN-Basic package you will find example code in different programming languages, that uses a thread to read messages.

Happy programming

Hello everybody, if you are having problems using the LIN channels after a sucessful installation of the PCAN-USB Pro package, maybe these lines can help you to solve the problem. The LIN part of the device needs the .NET Framework 2.0 from Microsoft to work. This is part of the latest operating sys...

Hello nuno, There is an error on the .NET declaration of the function SetSchedule. The Problem is the marshaling of the array that contains the schedule slots. For C#, please change this definition In the PLinApi.cs file: [DllImport("plinapi.dll", EntryPoint = "LIN_SetSchedule")] public static exter...

Hello Vlad, Once CAN_Write() returns PCAN_ERROR_QXMTFULL it never seam to flush the transmit buffer out and to return PCAN_ERROR_OK again. I see the PEAK USB interface continuously sending data in this state. The only way to get PEAK USB back to normal is to disconnect and connect the USB cable from...

Hello Vlad, the TPCANBaudrate type enumerates the most commonly used values. You can use custom values by passing a Bus-Timing-Register value as a " TPCANBaudrate " value. For example, 33.333 kBits would be: stsResult = PCANBasic.Initialize(PCANBasic.PCAN_USBBUS1, (TPCANBaudrate)0x1D14); Here a list...

Thank you for your reply. Both help files (PACN-Basic and PCAN-View) are on my local drive. Are you using Windows XP or Vista? If it is so, maybe you can find a solution for the CHM problem here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jonbox/archive/2007/07/06/why-doesn-t-this-chm-work-on-windows-vista.aspx I was...

I downloaded the PCAN Basic but I can’t read the documentation file PCANBasic_enu.chm. I see the table of context, but when I try to select a topic I only see “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” message. By the way, the PCAN-View Help is not working too. looks like you're trying to open the he...

Hi Peter, ...at the moment i use your interrupt callBack to read CANA ,do I have to set up a second callBack for CANB ... If you mean with "interrupt callback" the function "ReadMessages" from the PCAN-Basic samples, it is up to you if you do the new read works within the same function or in a new o...

Hello Peter, you are able to use up to 8 USB channels simultaneously within the same application using the PCAN-Basic. We don't have an example doing this, but basicly you just need to make the connection process you have written in your app twice, one for each adaptor (CAN-Bus): // PCAN-USB connect...

The .NET and MFC sample projects were written using Visual Studio 2008 (VS). If some of you have to work with VS 2005, taking a look at this PDF may be helpful .