I try to programatically change the commport used by the mscomm32.ocx control.

the code looks like this:

if formobject.mscommobject.portopen=.t.
formobject.mscommobject.portopen=.f.
endif
formobject.mscommobject.commport=newport
if formobject.mscommobject.portopen=.f.
formobject.mscommobject.portopen=.t. /here the problems apears
endif

when i reopen the port it says that the port is already open but i entered the if instruction cvhecking for the port to be closed.
if i don't try to reopen the port it says that the port is not open when i try to read from the port....

does anyone have any idea why is this happening??????

thanks in advance,
Alina Panaghiu