At 17:14 03/27/99 +1000, Glen Torr wrote:
>I would be most interested to know what IDE you use and would reccommend:-

if that was a general question (and not for andy alone :)

i decided some time ago to go with one of the
compiler/assembler/processor-independent programmer's editors and got
CodeWright (from www.premia.com ). ’t's a pretty powerfull tool, and if it
doesn't do =all= you might want (which is not very likely, since it can do
a lot), you can write your own extensions as dlls using their provided
sources and the headers for their core api. (for example, i think there is
no source code color coding driver for the pic assembler -- they probably
have source code coloring for a 100 or so languages --, but with the
provided sources for the other color coding schemes it's easy to write your
own pic color coding dll and integrate it then in your setup.) it's
sometimes a bit confuse in the configurations i have found (it has various
configuration files, and it's not always clear where it stores which
configuration item, and it has =many= configuration items), but in general
i can say i'm happy with it. it provides me with a familiar environment to
write code for whatever target -- i just have to set up the command lines
and error filters for the compiler, assembler, or other tools and the
language definitions (including language-specific editor preferences).

since i'm using a tech-tools emulator, i have to leave this environment for
emulation, and then i use the tech-tools environment, but that's (for me)
more a emulator driver than an ide, and in the same sense i use mplab for
the picstart+ (which i wouldn't, obviously, if there was a command line
driver i could integrate in the editor).

there are other similar editors around, from free to a few hundred dollars,
and for whoever works with different tools and targets, it seems to be
worth it to decide on a set of compiler/target-independent program writing
tools, even if you do the debugging then in another environment (like your
emulator's or your simulator's).

ge