You can run lot's of ruby modules rather than one big one with out any effects on CPU etc.

Yes the GUI part can be a little confusing at first. Once you get the hang of it, it's quite simple.

Step 6 – Finalizing the GUI ( http://www.dsprobotics.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=257 )

The first thing is to gain access to the GUI system and to do this you need to add this ...

I was under the impression that if you go 64bit the inline assembler code was not allowed anymore?

Thanks for the insightful reply DSP! Please excuse my terseness:

1. I figured Ruby would be better than the old green-system for MIDI, & so this is good news. But now (unless there is a flood of new modules coming) learning Ruby adds an additional layer of complexity & time; why not just learn C ...

As a beta tester I've played with the new Midi and audio to Ruby Modules and can report that the Ruby interface side doesn't appear to slow things down with audio, but the audio processing can. The midi stuff works really well with now actuate timing thanks to the events system.

The Ruby ...

These are new features coming out in the next version, they are not in FREE or PRO yet.

I have spoken to DSPRobotics and an announcement will be made shortly about the up and coming release

Yes it is?

You can have one Ruby Module in the FREE version, which is enough?

Since you are using FlowStone I guess you have to talk to this digital sensor manually.

Looking at the data sheet for the temp sensor it uses an SHT11 sensor:

http://www.sensirion.com/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/sensirion/Dokumente/Humidity/Sensirion_Humidity_SHT1x_Datasheet_V5 ...

It could be down to Termination, how are your incoming strings terminated?

Have you set the incoming termination character on the FlowStone comport module.

OR it could be too fast to see, have you used a queue buffer on the incoming data to capture all of the incoming strings?

The example I posted works for what you are asking:

Phidgets Servo Test4 RT.fsm

The Phidgets board can only process one thing at once but it can do this really fast so that it is transparent when using simultaneous inputs.

Here is an example using the Xbox controller:

Phidgets Servo Xbox.fsm ...