I liked the idea of "LEDs" assignable to a port to give a quick visual of
what's going on. - Any chance of adding this as a new window/panel - along
the lines of the ext. async stimulus panel? (or am I just lazy? - my
hex-binary  converter is getting old and tired!)

Say -   RED =   Active High
                Green = Active Low
                Blue    = High Z - Input State


Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrel Johansen [mailto:darrelj@PRIMENET.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 12:33 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: MPLAB desires
>
>
> We're working on much of this right now.  Expect an end of
> the year update that has mostly user-friendliness improvements.
> Of course, by the end of the year, you might not need those
> things, because you'll be an expert by then.
>
> Anne Ogborn wrote:
> > 1. Some feedback when you are running with unbuilt code.
> We are looking at this, as well as a message to indicate that
> the source has been modified but not rebuilt when you try
> to do debug functions.
>
> > 2. support for 3rd party programmers, esp. the direct from
> > parallel port kind.
> This is a possibility.  Whoever makes these, contact me at
> darrel.johansen@microchip.com and we can discuss.  I know
> the PICSTART Plus interface has been hacked --with that data,
> just about anyone could hook into the interface.
>
> > 3. make stopwatch less obtrusive - put it in status bar???
> Ran out of room on the status bar in 640:480 mode.  Maybe we
> can make the status bar customizable...
>
> > 4. some way to interface a program to create a stimulus
> file on the fly.
> > Incorporating Visual Basic would be easy. Listening at a TCP/IP
> > socket would be quite general. ODBC would be perverse but would
> > work - CORBA?? RMI??? ActiveX???  Something??????
> This'll probably have to wait for MPLAB-32 (which is also underway,
> but don't look for it this millenium).
>
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> |     tempe,  arizona     |
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