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[LEDave]

Hi mackrackit,

If you are interested I started some Python stuff at the web site in my signature.

Short answer is yes I am interested and thanks for posting the link. Right now I've managed to get a VB-2008 program to open and close Port_Com1 when I run debug, which is a breakthrough. If I can get it to receive data from the PIC then....... But so far no luck....

Give me a few more days to try and crack it, if I can't I'll jump ship to Python (I might do that anyway).

It's a shame that the 'RENTRON'? "Receiving Data From A Microcontroller" program was a different VB version, I'd just about got a handle on it in the broadest of senses, ho hum.

The VB stuff has been good for me though, it shows up the gaping wholes in my knowledge bank, you really can't run before you can walk with this stuff. Ill keep taking the small steps though.

Just to add, when I open Com1 in VB, then try to open Com1 with serial Communicator, it show the Port in use. When I close Com1 in VB, I can then open it with the Serial Communicator. I'm using this as a test / check.

How big a step forward is getting the Com Port to open and shut?

Cheers: Dave