In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, dkemppai wrote: [quote="PJMonty"] Dan, You get into the tricky zone with USB serial adapters. I say this only because the IDE simply uses Win32 API calls for talking to the serial port. In other words, it's not like the IDe has some magic up its sleeve where it knows it's talking to a USB serial port. It just does what it has always done and talks to the serial port via the API. If you had no problems like this with a "real" serial port, then it's some issue related to the USB serial port. One solution that has often helped folks with serial problems is to make the character buffers smaller. On the USB ports, there tend to be more options to adjust. I would try experimenting (one option at a time) and see if you have any positive change. When you do the experiments, be bold. If you have sliders, move [b]one[/b] of them to the far extreme and try running the IDE. Make sure that you [b]apply[/b] the change and possibly restart the IDE to make sure the change is recognized. If it's not better (or it's worse), move it to the other end. Lather, rinse, repeat on each parameter until you (presumably) get a more stable setup. If you get something that works, post it here to share the knowledge. I wish I could help more, but with having you're exact setup here, it's impossible to now what will work. Thanks, PeterM I'll beat up on the USB settings a little more than I have thus far... Since Parallax is developing a USB key, why don't you guys use the Direct drivers avaliable with the FTDI drivers. I know it would be a lot of work, but I'd think debugging throughput could be incresed dramatically. (With the direct drivers, you could access FTDI stack directly, and not have to go through all of the USB to serial gobbly gook... ...with a parallel USB chip, I've measured 750KBytes/Sec transfers sustained. (The other plus, would be the USB Key could pop up as a "Parallax USB SX-Key" when indows detects the hardware.... Plus, did you know that the direct drivers have function calls that mimic the win32 fucntion calls for dealing with the comm ports??? It would require a little reflashing of the 232R chip on the USB Key, but it's still early in the USB SX-Key game... Anyway, now that I sort of have your attention. There are two things about the IDE gui (the SX-Key editor windows) that get me into trouble. If you could look at addressing these on the next version, it would be wonderful! 1) whenever I select text, and right click on the selected text, there is no popup for copy/paste. I have to first move my cursor on white space next to the seleced text to get the popup. (This one bugs me quite often, as my laptop has a small keyboard, and I prefer to use the external mouse and associated movements when possible) The action is counterintutive compared to most windows programs... 2) when using the find and replace function, mashing down on the find will locate an item being searched for. Presing the replace will replace that item. However, after a replace, the replace button will keep adding items to the end of the text being replaced if pressed again. (Try it, do a find, then push replace several times) That one would simply require a flag set by the find function, and checked/cleared by the replace function... Thanks for your time! -Dan [/quote] ---------- End of Message ---------- You can view the post on-line at: http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=7&p=1&m=246243#m249981 Need assistance? Send an email to the Forum Administrator at forumadmin@parallax.com The Parallax Forums are powered by dotNetBB Forums, copyright 2002-2008 (http://www.dotNetBB.com)