A header wizard

[mackrackit]

MicroCode Studio
Why??

[ScaleRobotics]

MicroCode Studio
Why??

Because most people like it a whole lot more than a text editor.

[Darrel Taylor]

No, MicroCode Studio does NOT have Plug-in's.

It was converted into the Proton IDE and Plug-in's were added there, but they were never added to MCS.

[cncmachineguy]

MicroCode Studio
Why??

I thought that was the "standard" for writing PBP code in. Besides a text editor, how else?

[mackrackit]

MPLAB
Emacs
gEdit
Norm's Fine Line IDE

[cncmachineguy]

Ok, so I get it now. You guys already told me in my other thread to use mplab since I am used to it already. But I forgot. To be clear in my head, I just write the PBP code in mplab, and since I ran the install mplab plugin, mplab will know how to compile it. Do I have it correct now?

Assuming I am correct, since I install the mplab plugin, mplab allows plugins. I hope I am correct here, cuz to me that would mean we really want to evolve the wizard into a plugin for mplab.

Thoughts?

[cncmachineguy]

well it appears microchip does not want to make the plugin development by non commercial folks too easy. from a quick search, I gather there is some NDA to sign. this makes an open source project pretty un-doable.

[mackrackit]

The thing about plugins is every time the thing it is plugged into gets an update the plugin most often needs and update too.

That does not sound like fun too me.

[cncmachineguy]

You are right Dave, the plugin becomes unplugged! So we are full circle back to the good stuff now, the business of header wizard.

Thanks for clearing up my confusion about the code you have done so far. I won't bite off the html stuff for now, so thats on you guys. but I am very excited to get started on the python. Last time I had a formal programming class was college. lets say 20 years ago.

And yes, I hope to be able to ANSWER some questions soon, instead of always being the asker.