Code snippet for Lazarus to add detected serial ports to a Combo Box (on Windows)

{The following code adds the serial ports detected by Microsoft Windows into a Combo Box. Unfortunately, if a serial port is added after the application is started, it won’t be added in the combo box.}

procedure TSerial.ComboBoxAddPorts(combo_box: TComboBox);
var
i,nb_ports: integer;
my_dwSize: DWORD;
cc: TCommConfig;
Port_Name: ansistring;

begin
nb_ports := 0;
my_dwSize := SizeOf(cc);

{ I included a modified code snippet; here’s the copyright of the original code below.
The original code had up to 9 methods of getting the available serial ports. Here,
I selected one of the simplest that could be translated in pascal.

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//Up to 255 COM ports are supported so we iterate through all of them seeing
//if we can get the default configuration
for i:=1 to 255 do
begin
//Form the Raw device name
Port_Name := ‘COM’ + IntToStr(i);

if GetDefaultCommConfig(PChar(Port_Name), cc, my_dwSize) then
begin
combo_box.AddItem(Port_Name,Nil);
nb_ports := nb_ports +1;
end;
end;
// End of code snippet

if nb_ports = 0 then
MainApp.StatusBar.SimpleText := ‘No serial port detected!’
else
MainApp.StatusBar.SimpleText := IntToStr(nb_ports) + ‘ serial port(s) detected!’;
end;