I have some comments on the new MPLAB 4.99.07, It looks better with the
menu's and all BUT:

<rant mode=max>
I have to agree with Quentin here, issues with ICD are NOT resolved, user
input did (yet again) not make it to the program, just to the planned
improvements list.

Many of the suggestions or bugfixes would take minimal time to implement or
fix but the only thing that seems important to microchip is that all devices
new and old make it on the list of supported chips (no matter how broken
this support is)
</rant>

And the answer to the $1.000.000 question is......nope unfortunately not.

Peter


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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Quentin
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:46 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT] New MPLAB


andy howard wrote:
>
> > Has anyone downloaded mplab 4.99.07 yet ??  any hassels with it ?
>
> Yes, I grabbed it last week. Haven't really exercised it enough to be
> sure of finding bugs, but so far it seems pretty good.
>
> The improvements are *well* worth having. In particular havinag all the
> setup options in one dialogue is long overdue and the help is worth
> using now.
>
> A big well-done to the MPLAB crew at M-chip.
>
> .
Better make this OT first...
<Rant mode on>
Actually, I am disappointed. With every new release of MPLAB since I
started using it more than 3 years ago I expect them to do something
about the controls of the Sim and other things such as a proper working
Tool bar. And every time they disappoint me. I'm not going to repeat all
my complaints here, some of them are on the M'chip Web board.

The new changes are just cosmetic and are with menus that you only use
once or twice when you build a project. Why don't they concentrate on
the real issues here such as MPSIM, which now is even more important due
to ICD.

Looks like they do the Microsoft shuffle here: Add support, add support,
change picture, add support, add support, change picture, etc...
Meantime the code stays BROKEN!

OK, I'll get off the soap box now.....
<Ranting mode off>

Anybody got a proper sim that works with ICD????

Quentin