Why use a bootloader?

[mister_e]

Did you tried by changing the port and baudrate speed in the Mcloader application?

As far as i'm aware of, it set the baudrate to 9600, should work faster with higher speed OSC. It's been a long time I used a bootloader though

[Fredrick]

I have set it to the maximun speed 115200, the standard value was 19200.
And yes it´s a bit faster now and it still works ok, no programming errors.

Is the author of Microcode Studio on this forum?
Mayby he can release a bugfix for the COM port issue.

[mister_e]

Well it's not a com port issue, it's not even an issue, it's a hidden feature, and it's probably like that for reliability rather than for speed

If you want to speed up a bit the process, you may uncheck some Verify options in MicroCode Loader option.

This said, the COM setting in MCSP is for ICD, not bootloader.

[Fredrick]

Yes, but I mean the issue with selecting the COM port in the loader app.

and in the help file for MCSP it says

Using the Loader with MicroCode Studio Plus

Connect a serial cable between your computer and development board. Apply power to the board.
From the ICD toolbar, select the serial port you will be using to communicate with the development board.

i can´t select any COM port there becous it´s locked, until i select an ICD compatibel PIC then i can change the port and then i have to change back to the PIC I´m using.

[mister_e]

Ah, I see, well let's forget the help file then

Not sure how bad some Virtual Port could be, but It may cause some problem with some Chipset/Driver combination.

Real serial port have their place, but agreed, not a big majority release serial product now... Even some PCI (or whatever else PC slot) are just silly priced now.

[Fredrick]

Yea...
Microcode studio plus is still the best editor for PBP that i know about.
Is there anyone here that are using a better editor?

[mister_e]

Define the word better and we may come up with some idea.

MPLAB is fine, but you don't have serial com port access, no plug-in facility either.

PsPad, nice code editor, but no PBP syntax embedded in

CodeDesigner was great a while back, no longer supported, no serial communication utility, no plug-in facility either.