Quote Originally Posted by dbodenheimer View Post
1. Is there a better way to send serial; data than the way I'm doing it? Anyone have a routine that they think works better?
For certain, Al's method is the preferred way if you are going to send ascii. However, in most situations you can send the actual data instead of the ascii representation of it. Doing so makes it MUCH faster and MUCH smaller code, because you are sending half the data and doing do it without ascii conversions.

Instead of
dim TxBuf[4] as byte 'var declaration
HSEROUT[STR txbuf \ 4] 'sending data

dim TxBuf as word 'new var declaration
HSEROUT[TxBuf] 'new sending data

now your pic will send two bytes, low byte first.

Side Note: As a personal preference, I like to make the first letter of a variable the first letter of the type. So I would make it wTxBuf, since it is a word. This makes it a lot easier to find type mismatch errors.