MicroCodeStudioPlus keeps crashing.

[Normnet]

There is always the alternative of the FL IDE by Norm.

Ioannis

See v3.3 at FineLineIDE Wiki
FineLineIDE is a one folder install (no registry entry's) so you can cut, copy or delete as you wish.
FL saves a recovery file every 30 seconds and prompt’s to restore on restart if improper shutdown or crash.

Also beta testers needed for 3.76
Added line step which allows stepping back and forth through previous lines with out utilizing undo or redo.
Now 10 programmer tabs in place of 5.
Added capability to program from a hex file from any programmer tab.
Added "My highlighter" for user specified highlighting of specific text for color, bold, italic and underline.
Unicode now supported (non English text).
FineLineIDE BETA v3.76 download
Change .xyz extension to .exe

Please discuss FL on the PicBasic FineLineIDE forum


Norm

[Demon]

Does it still crash if you run as administrator?

[picster]

Crashes in admin mode or not... try turning off italics for remarks... that's my latest attempt in circumventing the problem.

[picster]

Just crashed - so much for the italics theory. HOWEVER, this was STILL a case of crashing while I was typing in a comment field, which ALWAYS seems to be the case. (cross-posted)

[Ioannis]

Hmm, Comments are necessary of course. What if you type the comments this way:

keep typing WITHOUT the ; or ' and after finishing typing get back to the first character and type the ; or ' symbol.

Not the best idea but maybe it will help until the problem is solved.

Ioannis

[picster]

This is still happening. It seems to come in fits and spurts, no issues for a couple of weeks, then bam, crash after crash of the program. Excessively annoying, particularly when there's no time-based autosave built-in. Yesterday I had about 8 program crashes before I walked away.

Has anyone experiencing this incessant problem tried any of the following and STILL had a MCSP crash:

1) running it as the ONLY program? I usually have a couple of other programs running (typically have a web browser open as well as a PDF for the PIC I'm using)

2) disconnecting from the internet and running only while disconnected? Keeps other programs from doing their own online thing?

3) concurrent with #2, disable Microsoft Security Essentials (or other)?

I'm thinking of doing all 3 at once to see if it possibly helps.

This is paid software, and it's utter *BS* that this should be an issue for a number of people who have paid to use it and are being plagued with this problem. I know it's *not* an MELabs product, but perhaps MELabs could step in and put some pressure on since it's a "cooperative" product that's advertised for use with PBPx (hence pointing there for sales).

[Archangel]

This is paid software, and it's utter *BS* that this should be an issue for a number of people who have paid to use it and are being plagued with this problem. I know it's *not* an MELabs product, but perhaps MELabs could step in and put some pressure on since it's a "cooperative" product that's advertised for use with PBPx (hence pointing there for sales).

You know how difficult it is to write a program for a pic and have it work, ALWAYS work for your specific PIC which has NO OTHER programs working the background. Any program you write for a PIC is a thousand times more simple than any program running on a PC
Now Imagine your program must run on every PIC without modification, while other programs demand the same resources.
There are application and programs that do not play well with others, especially anti virus software. You can do things to assist MCS, like give it higher permissions than some other programs, also change the mode it's running in WIN ,XP,98 etc. In this case BS might mean Better stratagy In ANY event getting mad or frustrated is anti useful.
sometimes Youtube crashes our computer Full on BSOD and no other ap does this.