ok, im back.  lol

I have tried your program idea and I keep getting a syntax error.   when I click ok it doesn't show me where the error is.  I just see the cursor next to "Lcnt1".   so im not sure if this is the problem or not.

how do you declare varibles in Cypress Enable?

The only thing I see wrong is MessageBox  should be MsgBox  (;-)

(;-) TP

OOPS there is another error

  IF Lcnt >= 10000 then                                    ' Check the status of the Lcnt1 value IF it timed out then do stop function

SHould read as

  IF Lcnt1 >= 10000 then                                    ' Check the status of the Lcnt1 value IF it timed out then do stop function

Now im having trouble with my turret motor controller.   can seem to make the motor work.

going to take motor out and see if theres a mechanical problem.

Well, took the turret apart and found a screw was the problem, it was mechanically binding the rotating part of the turret. once I removed the screw everything went back to working.

Thank you for your help.  the macro program is working beautifully!!!   

the while loop is working good too.  I added msgbox(Lcnt1), and it would show me the count.  which was 173,000 or something close to that.  so I raised the count to 250,000 before the message would appear and its working fine.

Good Job (;-) TP