serial communication too fast?

[Marco Martin]

Hi,

I'm writing a program in C# which logs data comming from a com port. the
port is set up 8 bit, no parity, 1 stop bit (n-8-1), @ 38400 baud. I'm
supposed to receive this data and simply display it in a listbox. No
problem there. Once I start iterating through the data to do some
manipulation though, it wont print to my listbox unless I put a break point
in my code. Then I get some data printed. A few seconds later, the same
thing happens, and I put a break point in the code again and more data gets
printed. I'm thinking that the data is comming too fast, but I'm running on
a P4 with 512M ram. It just doesn't make sense.
The data comes in fine if I just take it in and print it (like on
hyperterminal for example).

any ideas?

regards,

marco

 

[the man]

have your listbox get refreshed every few seconds
(Listbox.Refresh())
you can use a timer and on the tick event refresh the
listbox.

 

[Marco Martin]

Found an answer, I actualy put a thread.join(250 ms) and it solved the
problem.