CommEvent Retrieves a numerical event code indicating the most recent event or error. MSComm32 and SComm32 have the same syntax and SIMILAR functionality (SComm32 is improved. See below)   Syntax:- value = SComm1.CommEvent   value:- A numeric value being one of the following.   1 comEvSend   There are < SThreshold number of bytes remaining in the transmit buffer 2 comEvReceive   There are >= RThreshold number of bytes in the receive buffer 3 comEvCTS   The state of the CTS input changed. 4 comEvDSR The state of the DSR input changed. 5 comEvCD The state of the Carrier Detect input changed. 6 comEvRing Ring Indicate 7 comEvEOF End of File character was read.     1001 comEventBreak A break signal was received/detected. 1004 comEventFrame The hardware/Driver detected a framing error 1006 comEventOverrun The hardware could not receive data fast enough and some was lost. 1008 comEventRxOver Receive Buffer Overflow. There was no room in the receive buffer and some data was lost. 1009 comeventRxParity Parity Error. 1010 comeventTxFull Application tried to queue a character into the transmit buffer while the buffer was full. 1011 comEventDCB An error occured while setting up the Windows Com Driver.   Example:- Private Sub SComm1_OnComm    Select Case SComm1.CommEvent       Case 2 '// evReceive          Text1.Text = Text1.Text & SComm1.Input       Case 1001 to 1011 '// An Error          Text2.Text = "A Comm Error Occured"       Case Else          '// Something else happened.          '// Lets ignore it.    End Select End Sub

Remarks: When using Event driven communications you would generally respond to the OnComm event and then interrogate the CommEvent property to decide what the cause of the OnComm event was. (The CommEvent property contains the code/reason for the raising of the OnComm event) If you are not using an OnComm event in your project then you can still interrogate this property to retrieve the most recent event or error status. SComm32 Improvement(s) over MSComm32 Under some conditions MSComm32 OnComm event is re-entrant. This means that the CommEvent property can change while you're still (before you're finished) using it inside an OnComm event. This can cause errors in your program that are almost impossible to debug. SComm32 will never change the CommEvent property while your code is running inside the OnComm event. Any further events are queued so that you get them one after the other - the CommEvent property will therefore not change unexpectedly.