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> From: Jinx [SMTP:joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:52 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]:MPLAB being a complete PITA
>
> > I have seen something similar with 5.70.40, not specificaly those
> > keys but after using it for a while it deos start ignoring keypresses.
>
> Glad (YKWIM) that it's not just me, but that's cold comfort. For now
> I edit in Notepad and then Copy/Paste into MPLAB to run code. The
> novelty of that has now worn off.
>
I edit stuff in Ultra Edit (one of the best purchases I've ever made).  If
you just want to compile you don't need to do any cut and pasting. As long
as you save the work in notepad, MPLAB will pick up the changes.  Just leave
all the source windows closed in MPLAB, do your editing/compiling and when
ready to simulate open up the source in MPLAB.

> BTW, right-click operations on selected text in MPLAB would be nice
>
You do get that in MPLAB 6.00

> > It only seems to happen when I'm using an old clunker of a PC running
> > Win95 in our lab
>
> I'm using an 800 with Win98SE and never had this problem before
> with any program. And as I said, all keys work when you quit MPLAB
>
> > Talking of bugs, have you tried MPLAB 6.00.20?  The HiTech C
> > integration is shockingly bad
>
> But do the keys work ? ;-) If so I'll d/l it. Heck, I'll even go backwards
> to
> the MPLAB I had before. It was only MPASM that went funny
>
They do seem work.  If you are using assembler only then it may be fine for
you, and the latest version supports all the PIC fammily including
12/14/16/17 and 18.  However, if you are on 56k dialup it's a bit of an epic
download at 22Meg.  It does have a reasonably nice syntax colouring editor
though :o)

Mike

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