Im sick and tired of using MPLAB.
its way too messy, with too many windows opened all over the place. Loosing windows behind others soon becomes extremely tedious.
Does anyone know of any other IDE's that C18 works with?
Ive tried ultra edit studio, but i cant seem to get the compiler to work with it, even though it mentions the Microchip Compiler.
Im inherently messy myself, so working with mplab in any configuration will cause me grief.
I just wish that there was someway of using visual studio, as this is the best IDE that i have ever used.
Maybe a workaround would be to create a loader for MPLAB, and use WINAPI to set the various child window locations. Maybe even implement some crude docking.
In case you didn't know, you can quickly flip through the open windows in a project with Ctrl/Tab. (To flip through open programs in Windows use Alt/Tab).
Ctrl/F4 closes the current active project window.
There are other shortcuts, but I can't think of em right now. Too early.
Maybe a workaround would be to create a loader for MPLAB, and use WINAPI to set the various child window locations. Maybe even implement some crude docking.
When MPLAB closes it offers to save the workspace. If you do that then when you re-open it it opens exactly as you left it. So lay out the windows to suit you and save on close. Simple.
There's also an option in the setup menus to have it open the project you last worked on on startup. Nice time saver. Works great.
The big widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio) LCD monitors (22") are wonderful. You have almost enough real estate to get things done without constantly shuffling windows. I have three and I can never go back to crappy CRT's. Even my best old CRT (nice aperture grill unit) looks blurry to me now. I have one 19" (5:4 aspect ratio) non-widescreen LCD and I don't like it anymore either. Too small.
I have a 20" widescreen LCD that uses same resolution as the 22" ones, 1680x1050. It's a bit small. The pixels are smaller, as they'd have to be, so you have to have it a bit closer to you to see well (old eyes).
When I have a lot of editing to do I open the file I want to edit in Visual Studio C+. I have the same file open in both MPLAB and studio. On the MPLAB side you can configure it to update the file when it is changed outside MPLAB. Studio asked you if you want to update it when changed outside studio, may be an setting to not ask but I did not find it yet.
MPLAB's editor sucks rocks... and as I run MPLAB under Linux I use emacs to edit my code and switch to the MPLAB window to hit F10 to build. I then use git as source code control and all is well.