Subject Re: Does dbase work with pole display From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invald> Date Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:31:43 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2019-10-10 9:09 AM, Emeka wrote: > Thank you Mervyn, > > This worked well without the length errors but the thing now is data from the two lines appeared on one line. Something like no carriage return. > > Again which command can I use to clear data from the pole. Something like putting finishing touches to this code. This is something you are going to have to experiment with yourself.  I don't have serial port and an identical display to play with so I can't see the result of sending controls to the display. Try adding a  carriage return and line feed to each line and see what that does. oS.writeString(form.entryfield1.value+chr(13)+chr(10)) oS.writeString(form.entryfield2.value+chr(13)+chr(10)) Your supplier should have given you some documentation, apart from some rudimentary Visual Basic code, on what the display can, and can't, do. All the control characters that the display apparently reacts to were listed in my first program.  I  suggest you set up a separate pushbutton to submit each one to the display and see what happens for each.  the first one to try is reset and see if that clears the display.    function PUSHBUTTON2_onClick()       oS = form.serialcomm1       oS.openPort('COM1',9600,N,8,1)       oS.writeString(chr(31))       oS.closePort()       return Mervyn.