In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, Castrovinci wrote: John, I wasn't saying that to upset you. It seems so hard to please people in online forums. If you ask people to much they come back and tell you to do the work yourself. If you ask to little they said provide more details....... I was trying to be kind and sort of figure my issues out by taking some examples from the reply's and learn it. I can surely post more in depth and again I am trying to learn and by no means mean any disrespect. Now to the help section. If you type in things in the help you dont always get the best explainations or very vague explanations. Same as how the search section is setup here. Try a google search then try searching the forumns here and see the difference. Just a suggestion not critisism. I would like to send you a screen shot, but I dont see attach on the quick post. The error I get is on DELAY_MS 5 invalid parmiters. Then if I removed that line I get an error on TX_BUF @strBuf invalid number of parameters. I am using 3.3.0 software. This is what I am trying to do in a nutshell. Connect to the sxchip via serial port using VB I am then using Vb to grab from an odbc (mysql) database and send that info to the sxchip. The sxchip will then turn on or off a certain relay via the database information and send confirmation back to the vb program Eventually I want to experiment with frequency's and Digital to anolog converters, etc and have that serial back information to my vb program and update the database. John, thanks for taking the time to write what you wrote, let me know what I have to do to get it working (or what I am missing) and if you need more info let me know. thanks! ---------- End of Message ---------- You can view the post on-line at: http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=7&p=1&m=372213#m372435 Need assistance? Send an email to the Forum Administrator at forumadmin@parallax.com The Parallax Forums are powered by dotNetBB Forums, copyright 2002-2009 (http://www.dotNetBB.com)