In effect yes, each truck is to be timesliced, a chance to send and recieve data by itself. The maincontroller, parent form, contains the comport feature. The parent form also creates an instance of each truck when its time for that particular truck. I hope that clarifies. I have a zip file of a more defined situ. Unfortunatley I haven't found a place to apply an attachment. Thanks for reply L.

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No problem. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

Funny thing you should say about the static last_time. That's exactly what I did. Take off the static and it worked just as planned. Thanks for the second confirmation. ;P That's why I like this place Later!!

I've just checked it and it's a method you need to call in the Parent, check the MdiLayout enum on MSDN for values. this.LayoutMdi(MdiLayout.Cascade); 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) Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

Ok It's one of those things where another of section of code was causing the problem. It had nothing to do with the array. Problem fixed array transfered properly. Say it with me now, ROOKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do appreciate the expediant answers. Consider this line/thread closed Thanks L.

Lecutus1 wrote: I dont want to recreate the whole project. Get the version of the form immediately prior to your latest change from source control. You are using source control. Right? :doh: Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

Not yet; C# 4.0 brings in Tuples, but I don't know how these would interact with arrays and it hasn't be released yet

For the grandchild form to be contained inside the grandparent form it must be grandchild.Mdiparent = MainIndiv_Truck_ControlMDI otherwise it won't be contained. You can put a form inside another, but you won't get the benefits of the MDI interface. Like this: Form grandchild = new grandchildForm(); grandchild.TopLevel = false; grandchild.Parent = MainIndiv\_Truck\_ControlMDI; grandchild.Visible = true; grandchild.Location = new Point(10, 10); grandchild.Size = new Size(100, 150); grandchild.BackColor = Color.Bisque; // or whatever. this is just to make it stand out MainIndiv\_Truck\_ControlMDI.Controls.Add(grandchild); Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”