Richterkessing, Frank H wrote

> Is anyone out there using the Windows/IDE version of the CCS compiler
> they advertise on their Web page? Any opinions of it? Just curious.

I'm using the normal CCS compiler with the windows version of MPLAB.
As far as I'm concerned it is not really neccessary to have the
special Windows/IDE environment if you can use it that way.  There
is one drawback though, and that is that the online help is not
available if you compile under MPLAB.  You can start the DOS version
as a background task to get help, but then then compiler will not
compile under MPLAB while the DOS version is also running in the
background.  :(

Also, it seems that the PCML was written for Win3.1 rather than Win95
because the window that it opens while compiling displays the typical
characteristic of programs written with something like Visual Basic
that are not completely compatible with Win95.   That is, you can not
read everything that appears in the window.  But it doesn't stop you
from using it, and I expect that this will probably have been fixed
by now.   Maybe someone else who bought their PCM compiler very recently
can tell...

Anyway, you asked about people that use the intergrated environment
which I'm not, so enough of my chitchat.  I'm also curious to hear
what people who actually gone to the extra expense of buying the IDE
think of it.  Hopefully there is someone that use it here on the Piclist.

Rgds
Werner
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