Gotta love these huge companies getting the government to help them compete.

I agree. I'm just wondering for "store fronts" what kind of customer they were targeting. The big aggregates have completely dominated the shopping arena. I can see a website for information, etc, but for selling stuff? Anyway, just interested in you web developers out there. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

Data receive events occur when a character arrives at the coms buffer, not when a message is complete. So when you call ReadExisting you will get a string containing all the characters received since the last call - and with modern processors being fast and serial coms being slow (9600 baud means a fastest data transfer rate of 9600 bits per second, which translates to around 960 characters per second at best) the most likely result is that each time it's called you will get one and only ever one character at a time. And since your code overwrites whatever was in the jb_serial_read string each time the event happens, that means that you will never see the complete message. You need to buffer data, spot teh end of data, and feed it back up the chain as a message instead of character by characters. "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

Shoulda kept that to yourself! Now it's wasted, and can't be used until this conversation is long forgotten ... :sigh: Pity - it's a damn good idea. "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

At a quick glance, your program reads a key but does not redraw the image. After a key is read (your Input() routine), you call your Logic() routine and then exit. I guess that what you wanted to do was to loop and redo the Draw(), Input(), Logic() steps until the end of the game. Suggestion: Encapsulate those steps in a do ... while loop.

Thank you, yes looking at the ACE helped me see it.

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I've never come across a situation which would need A and B to co-exist in that way, so it's difficult to give a useful answer. But unless you are running A and B at (more or less) the same time in the same shell, do you really need to share between them?

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