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A terminal yes.
I can do what I want to already (talk to a PIC controller) using string gagets etc. but I thought it would be good to move it on a little, but I think I might be going a step too far for what I know.

Thanks for your survival guide BTW, it has been really useful

Hi,
I'm still pretty much a beginner. I'm putting together a small app to read and write to a serial port. I can read from a string gadget and send that to the serial port ok, and I can write incoming text to the editor gadget.

However, if I want to write character by character as I type from the ...

Hello Thomas,
I've moved over from the other thread on announcements.

>> Possibly a bug. When playing and having got some free moves and some special moves,
>> if I use all my special moves when there are some free moves left, I am not allowed
>> to use the remaining free moves. I hope that makes ...

Great game Moskito and I like the improvements over v0.7. You have obviously spent a lot of time on this.
I do have some trouble with the different pink colours (the plain pink and the textured pink) but that's probably just my age :-)

Possibly a bug. When playing and having got some free moves and ...

manu,
Thank you! Nice piece of code and it works well

David

Thanks a lot for the tip. That was something I hadn't thought about at all.

Kaeru Gaman - OK I know how to use the Code button now, thanks for pointing that out.
I did remove the #'s while I was debugging before..

Derek, It sounds like you have it! Trouble is, how do I read a local file(i.e. a file contained in the exe) as opposed to one on the PC...

Thanks for your help ...

Thanks netmaestro, I tried that but it didn't work. As PB suggests here is the main bit of code (experienced programmers please close your eyes now) :)
When running on a different machine (or a different location on the main PC) the program fails in Procedure send at the Eof "while" loop ...

I am including a data file into some code. When I compile the code the size of the exe file suggests that the data has been included. When I run the program it works as expected but when I try to run the exe on a different machine the program fails at the data read stage. A picture which is also ...

Hi All,
I'm a newbie to writing code, but enjoying using PB for writing some very simple applications.
I'm writing a small engineering calculator and ideally need to have some maths functions which are not in the standard maths library. I downloaded the pbAPM libray but this does not appear to work ...