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Events and Callbacks

You can enhance the power and flexibility of your serial port application by using events. An event occurs after a condition is met and might result in one or more callbacks.

While the serial port object is connected to the device, you can use events to display a message, display data, analyze data, and so on. Callbacks are controlled through callback properties and callback functions. All event types have an associated callback property. Callback functions are M-file functions that you construct to suit your specific application needs.

You execute a callback when a particular event occurs by specifying the name of the M-file callback function as the value for the associated callback property.

Example: Introduction to Events and Callbacks

This example uses the M-file callback function instrcallback to display a message to the command line when a bytes-available event occurs. The event is generated when the terminator is read.

The resulting display from instrcallback is shown below.

End the serial port session.

You can use the type command to display instrcallback at the command line.


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