A less Cumbersome way of manipulating several LEDS?

[HankMcSpank]

Hi Darrel,

That's fantastic (ie two pins handled as one virtual pin...I'm figuring that the maximum number of Virtual Port bits is 8? if so, wouldn't you just know that I have 9 LEDs!)

re VirtualPort and the TRISC settings ...hmm, maybe I can't use your funky routine after all - one thing I observed when using the HIGH/LOW command, was excessive audible clicking attributed to the port.pin switching state (I work with low level guitar signals, which often pass in close proximity to a PIC, guitar signals often get treated with enormous gain so I'm perhaps more aware/sensitive to such clicks than others!) The only way I was able to stop such clicking was to to use TRISC command instead of the high/low command, for example, this would result in clicking....

TRISC.6 = 0
HIGH PORTC.6

whereas this doesn't...

PortC.6 = 1
TRISC.6 = 0

....whacky. (so to turn an LED on/off, I don't use high/low, but just set the pin as output or input)