- windows implementation changed to ctypes + simple dll
- added simpleio.dll, sources
diff --git a/pyparallel/src/win32/simpleio.c b/pyparallel/src/win32/simpleio.c
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+++ b/pyparallel/src/win32/simpleio.c
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+// Parallel port extension for Win32
+// "inp" and "outp" are used to access the parallelport hardware
+// needs giveio.sys driver on NT/2k/XP
+//
+// (C) 2005 Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net>
+// this is distributed under a free software license, see license.txt
+
+#include <windows.h>
+#include <conio.h>
+
+#define DRIVERNAME "\\\\.\\giveio"
+
+/* module-functions */
+
+WINAPI void outp(int port, int value) {
+ _outp(port, value);
+}
+
+WINAPI int inp(int port) {
+ int value;
+ value = _inp(port);
+ return value;
+}
+
+WINAPI int init(void) {
+ OSVERSIONINFO vi;
+
+ //detect OS, on NT,2k,XP the driver needs to be loaded
+ vi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(vi);
+ GetVersionEx(&vi);
+ if (vi.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT) {
+ HANDLE h;
+ //try to open driver
+ h = CreateFile(DRIVERNAME, GENERIC_READ, 0, NULL,
+ OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
+ if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+ //if it fails again, then we have a problem... -> exception
+ //"Couldn't access giveio device";
+ return 1;
+ }
+ //close again immediately.
+ //the process is now tagged to have the rights it needs,
+ //the giveio driver remembers that
+ if (h != NULL) CloseHandle(h); //close the driver's file
+ }
+ return 0;
+}