Serial Xterm is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to facilitate communication with serial devices directly from your editor. It provides an integrated terminal with features such as transmit (TX), receive (RX), terminal clearing, and the ability to dump terminal output for further analysis.
Usage
Open and close Serial Port
To open serial port, use the Connect icon.
To close serial port, use the Disconnect icon.
Transmit Data
You can send data to the connected serial device by typing in the terminal.
Serial Xterm can send data by the command serial-xterm.send issued by other extensions.
(Example code) vscode.commands.executeCommand('serial-xterm.send', {type: 'tx', value: 'TX string'});
Receive Data
Incoming data from the connected serial device will be displayed in the terminal in real-time.
Serial Xterm can redirect the received data to an extension registered it's rx-callback command.
(Example code) vscode.commands.executeCommand('serial-xterm.rx_callback', {rx-callback: 'xxxxxxx.serial-xterm.rx'});
When RX happens, Serial Xterm executes 'xxxxxxx.serial-xterm.rx' with the argument {type: 'rx', value: 'RX string'}
Clear Terminal
To clear the terminal output, use the Clear icon.
Dump Terminal Output
To dump the current terminal session's output to an editor for the further analysis or logging purpose, use the Dump icon.
Copy and Paste by L-Button Click
You can copy the selected text by L-button click
You can paste/input the text in clipboard to terminal by L-button click.
Word Hilighting
You can register the words for hilighting in Tool menu
Serial Xterm displays the registered words with Red, Green, or Yellow color.
