Hi Giles

If there is no text message, only watched expressions, then you will not see a message in the message output. You will see the values in the Trace and as you have said in the expressions window.

Yesterday you asked how to have text messages show in the message output window and not in the Trace. So now you will only see text messages in the message window 

Okay I understand now. That's sort of funny.

Visual Micro sees text as text typed into the When Hit message. Anything in {} is considered an expression regardless of it's contents.

I think you will need to add some text, can't think of any easy way to determine that you want the text message to come from a big {string} expression stored on the Arduino. To be honest, if we put the facility in everyone will use it and the Arduino will quickly run out of its limited memory. I know that in your case you are doing something slightly different but hopefully this makes sense to you.

Can you add some text to the beginning or end of the when hit message. A lone space char won't work in future versions, needs to be non-white space.

Thanks

What I have done is: var_name,{var_name}. This way I get a csv format. I copy to notepad, save, and open in Excel.

Thanks