Ok sending is now working how am i recieving now..?  Any chang eof an eg?

Ok,its not iking that exact thing but ill fiddle with it to see if it helps.  When im using Serial.read() will it return a string?

so...could i do this:

     this->serialPort1->Write("{Colours[0],Colours[1],Colours[2]}");

Hoping this is the place to post this wuestion im not positive but Is it possible to pass an array from computer to arduino board with info from a program in a way that it can then use the bits of info to do various things.  Basically what im asking is how to send the array (I am currently just using the VisualC++ example from: http://arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/CPPWindows  and just trying various things to send it with the Write function)

Thanks

ahahaahh got it....wrong serial port....

neither of us are using a mac......

Im having trouble uploading to my Uno ive never done it before and ive tried pretty much everything in trouble shooting im using 32bit Vista and it says:

Binary sketch size: 996 bytes (of a 32256 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x30
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51


thanks Zazw3