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So I downloaded the code, it compiled and ran without issues. It was not entirely obvious that I had to click on "Ports" to get a list of available COM ports -- why not just auto-initialize the list?
Also, labels for what the different pulldowns are would be helpful: baud rate, parity, stop bits, etc.
As to actually testing it with another device, I didn't do that as my breakout box is somewhere in storage. 
As to downloading the source without reading the text -- I didn't read the whole text either. I mean, it's a great article, but if there are special instructions for getting things working, I'd suggest at the top of the article, as a major heading "How To Run The Code" so that I don't have to read the whole article to figure out what it is I'm supposed to do. Now, I'm an old hand at RS-232, but there's a lot of youngins that aren't.
Marc
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Hmmm,
Quote: It was not entirely obvious that I had to click on "Ports" to get a list of available COM ports -- why not just auto-initialize the list?
Well I suppose that could just auto init the list but I was thinking that I had to do some reverse engineering to figure things out when I was learning. I was wanting to make it more obvious. 
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If it's any consolation, I got my comment for my vote of 1 downvoted the other day 
Apparently they also flagged it as spam/abuse 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Perhaps add a caveat such as: If you're too dumb to figure out how to get this to work, go back to playing with VB... 
I think it really means that if you are not explicit, someone will call you out.
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Me and VB don't talk/look at each other...
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Me and VB don't talk/look at each other...
Probably for the best.
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Does this happen often
Unfortunately, stupid people are real, and not a figment of your imagination.
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I write an new technical article just about every week. And I post often to technical sites.
As to my articles, I often find comments from people who seemingly were made against an article I didn't even write or they hone in on a single point, which was just a supporting factor to the entire piece.
I also often find poor sentence structure and on some of the political sites I read some of the most hate-filled messages one could ever imagine...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Well, just as well I am not the only one....
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It all depends how clear your text instructions were. I have downloaded stuff from Code Project before and failed to get it to work, only there were no instructions in this case. Some article writers forget that their audience is a diverse one.
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Point, but others who had issues gave me a little to work with, I could then figure out how it was breaking on there system. It not so much what was said but how it was said...
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Just wanted to know how many of you play Clash of Clans?
Are you guys excited about new sneak peeks:
- New Lightning Spell level 7
- Improved Lightning, Poison, Earthquake and Freeze spells!
-- P
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
modified 15-Sep-15 10:14am.
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Nope. Not planning to ever play it: the TV ads put me right off.
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And how do you feel about the Game of War ad with Kate Upton? 
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I feel the same about that as I do about the Clash of Clans advert.
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I don't, the CoC ad is just drivel. The GoW ones are patronising, sexist, and drivel.
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From a gaming perspective, both are a joke and I don't play either. The latter just happens to target a wider audience.
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Fortunately I am no longer 14, and I don't salivate uncontrollably at the sight of cleavage.
Instead, I categorise the product it advertises in the "probably rubbish if you aren't a 14 year old male" group, and ignore it.
To be honest, in the modern age with free access to the internet aren't adverts like that as patronising and sexist as the "breast out" calendars you used to see in every garage in the sixties and seventies?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Fortunately I am no longer 14, and I don't salivate uncontrollably at the sight of cleavage.
Well there's cleavage and there's Kate Upton's cleavage.
OriginalGriff wrote: To be honest, in the modern age with free access to the internet aren't adverts like that as patronising and sexist as the "breast out" calendars you used to see in every garage in the sixties and seventies?
No. No it's not.
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OriginalGriff wrote: UnFortunately I am no longer 14, and I don't salivate uncontrollably at the sight of cleavage.
FTFY
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Be 14 again, and think I knew everything? Not for me!
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Ahhh but then you could snog teenage girls without being locked up!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Oh gawd, no...do you remember what teenage girls were like?
Air headed, self obsessed, and armour plated everywhere interesting!
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