I like the idea of doing it with Java since I'm a Java supporter. The idea of doing it in ActiveX or in MS DLLs locks everyone into MS and there's no reason to exclude the MAC users (both of them ;) ) or the Linux folks. Java applications should run smoothly and fast enough even without native code - thus it could be made cross platform easily. Some native stuff for the port addressing might be necessary (I haven't thought that through at all) - but if kept to a minimum, moving it to different platforms should be easy enough. Unfortunately, it would lock everyone into a 32 bit machine with 32 meg+ of memory, many megs of hard drive space for the runtime, etc. Trade offs can be difficult. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Brandon To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 4:23 PM Subject: Re: MPLAB desires >Good point. In any case it could be done with native DLLs. You'd probably >want to do some of it in native code anyway for speed\programming ease. > >Tom. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Tony Nixon >To: >Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:01 PM >Subject: Re: MPLAB desires > > >> Thomas Brandon wrote: >> >> > I'd certainly be willing to devote programming time to a Java based >> > simulator. >> >> I am thinking of looking down this track myself for my own PIC tools. I >> wonder if there is any support for serial/parallel port interfaces >> though. >> >> -- >> Best regards >> >> Tony