Got It! Many thanks Estys. Solved it. Really appreciate your help. Cheers Bruce :)

Hi Alan, while I agree on two pointers plus amount being easier to understand, the nice thing about a circular buffer with only two pointers (and an empty slot) is that you don't need to lock if there is only one producer and one consumer: each pointer will have one writer and two readers, so when writing is atomic all is fine (when implemented carefully that is). Adding a currentCount makes the state redundant and prohibits atomic operations. Remember, in a typical application, the consumer would be the app itself, the producer of incoming messages would be the CAN driver, which operates from an interrupt service routine (an asynchronous handler in .NET speak). :)

Hi Dave, IMO your remark is perfectly valid in general; however in this situation the form implementing the log functionality is assumed to be the main form, and to live for as long as the app is running. If not, one should consider implementing the log server in a separate class, or drop the statics. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get - use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets

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Not sure about the safety of reading properties directly across threads as opposed to calling methods etc... I suppose you could provide a GetEnabled (and if needed SetEnabled) method that use the property's getter (and setter) and call Invoke on that. Dave BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)

Aw no comments? It took me quite a while to do the required research..

Glad to be of help Funnily, my other post came because I thought in C not c# :) Regards David R

Yes, you can't read the data directly from the file as a struct anyway, so there is no reason to use a struct at all, use a class. You can use a BinaryReader to read raw data from a file, but you need to read each value by itself. Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

I was hoping for Thread.Winks ( 40 ) ; Oh, wait, I could use an Extension Method for that... obfuscation here I come!

"Time slice every 1ms" I think I read that in the embedded training but I am now checking again. Many thanks, Bruce