I like that idea also.


On Wednesday, August 04, 1999 7:52 PM, Richard Prosser [SMTP:RPROSSER@SWICHTEC.C
O.NZ] wrote:
> 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).
> >
> > ___________________________
> > |     Darrel Johansen     |
> > |     tempe,  arizona     |
> > |   darrelj@primenet.com  |
> > |_________________________|
> >