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Neat !

Thanks, I'll try that.

[Edit]
Works fine, just needed a short delay in the Repeat loop to stop the thread hoarding the processor.
Thanks again.

kh

Thanks for the replies.

So when the serial port 'times out' after an interval set by SerialPortTimeouts it just closes and disappears ?

I was hoping for something more useful - I suppose it is back to the kludge of using the API timer to periodically check if any characters have appeared in the ...

How do you detect that a timeout had occurred using the in-built PB 4.32 serial port functions ?

There are no obvious clues in the documentation.