Mike wrote :

> On 22 Nov 2003 at 18:14, Thomas wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Is there any IDE out there that can be configured to do the same or
> > better job than the MPLAB 6.X IDE? ...
> > ... I am using Microchip C18 to write codes for the PIC18F8720.
>
> Thomas
>
> I've been told that the HiTech http://www.htsoft.com compiler has a good assembler,
> but the IDE is DOS and really looks it.
>
> Picant has a nice enough GUI and you can expand and collapse your C functions.
> I'm not sure how well it works or if the compiler/assembler is any good.

I was reading the O.P as he actualy wanted to keep on using C18, but use
another IDE then MPLAB, not ?

>
> If it's GUI you want, I'm using Ultra Edit. You can add to the word file to get asm
> syntax highlighting.

There are examples ready. I have one that does both 16 and 18 series
command. Might be missing some, but they are easy to add on-the-fly.
You just open the keyword file in a separate editor window, change whatever
and hit ctrl-S and the new keyword is active at once. You can keep the highlight
file open in a window for fast additions to the file.

> It already does C/C++.

You'd probably need to add a bunch of C18/PIC specifics...

> You can also set up the asm/compiler tools command line, IIRC,
> so you don't have to leave the GUI and that qualifies it as an IDE, IMHO.

Sure, just create one or more using either "Tool configuration" (for "tools" that
should be available in all projects) or "Project tool configuration" (for
"tools" that are specific to the *current* project). I'v described how to do this
in a chapter in my manual for the Embedinc PIC development environment (the
"Olin-environmet"). Check it out at www.st-anna-data.se under "PIC page". This
example uses a MAKE file to glue together Olins tools with MPASM and MPLINK.
Should be easy to include the C18 compiler in this also.

Note, the highlight example in the manual isn't up-to-date...

Jan-Erik.

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