Moving from Basic Stamp and MIKROE basic to PicBasic PRO

[CuriousOne]

I believe, it's my duty, to warn others about the bad product, being falsely advertised as good one.

And the errors I've listed above, has nothing to do with my knowledge of MCUs. It's totally fault of that IDE developers.

At the same time, I'm checking picbasic pro. And also, this IDE seems to be written upside down. Why no ability to configure default path for output .hex files? There are couple of other bugs, too. I'll list them later.

[Jumper]

If you feel most things are upside down then you probably live on the Southern hemisphere.

[CuriousOne]

Here's my first code with picbasic pro up and running. It does output variable PWM which I use for led dimming.

Sure, code is written really bad, but, at least it works. I've used included BUTX3 sample as basis:

   CMCON = 7          ' PORTA to digital
    OPTION_REG = $7f   ' Enable PORTB pull-ups
    TRISB = %11001111  ' Set PORTB.4,5 (LEDs) to output, rest to input
A var byte   
mainloop:
   PORTB = 0           ' Turn off LEDs

   ' Check any button pressed to toggle on LED
   If PORTB.7 = 0 Then ' If 1st button pressed...
      PORTB.5 = 1      ' Turn on 1st LED
      A=A+1
      if a=255 then a=a-1
            HPWM 1,A,1000
   Endif
   If PORTB.6 = 0 Then ' If 2nd button pressed...
      PORTB.4 = 1      ' Turn on 2nd LED
      a=A-1
      if a=1 then a=a+1
            HPWM 1,a,1000
   Endif

   Pause 15             ' Pause 2mS
   Goto mainloop       ' Do it forever

   End

I believe, first two lines of code are irrelevant for PIC16F628A, but at least it works...

[Acetronics2]

If you feel most things are upside down then you probably live on the Southern hemisphere.

Excellent ...

I would have written it with ... lots less humour !!!

Alain

[languer]

If you feel most things are upside down then you probably live on the Southern hemisphere.

Well said - that is very funny

[CuriousOne]

There are a lot of books available for picbasic, but very few for picbasic pro.

Is there anywhere information of side to side comparison of these two BASICs? I found that pro has hardware pwm, interrupts and some other features, but I'd like to see the complete list.

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
There are several flavours of "PIC BASIC" from different vendors and manufacturers. This forum, as you know, is really only targeting the compilers from MicroEngineering Labs. So when you see a reference to "PIC Basic" on the net or in a book, make sure you understand which manufacturers compiler they are really talking about.

If you're talking about comparing the features of the original PIC BASIC Compiler from MELABS to the PRO version of the same compiler I don't see the purpose since the old version is discontinued. Besides, if you think PBP is complicated you wouldn't want to use PBC.

If you want to compare the three different version of PBP3 then you can do so here. As far as I know all commands are available in all versions, however the experimenter and silver edition is limited in the number of supported devices. The silver edition, for example, does not support 18F series and therefor you can't use LONG variables.

[CuriousOne]

Yes, I meant melabs products.

There are a lot of books for projects and general design for picbasic on amazon, but almost none for picbasic pro.

[Acetronics2]

, but I'd like to see the complete list.

just download the PBP3 Manual ... if you dare reading it, of course !
http://pbp3.com/downloads/PBP_Reference_Manual.pdf

Alain

[CuriousOne]

I'm asking document like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...BgQKNzcUaRCACg

side by side comparison.

[Acetronics2]

YESS ...

This document is a commercial add published by Mikroelektronika years ago ... ( I have already shown this sheet here ...) . note here ee = i
It has made laugh loudly this forum guys as it's:

1) False ... ( just verify by yourself if you do not believe it ! )
2) Totally out of date
3) It does not take into account PBP is delivered with FREE Microcode Studio as an IDE, or MPLAB ( also FREE ) ...

n-1) They do not tell you MkB produced code is much larger than PBPro produced
N) They do not tell you there's one release every ~ 3 Month ( YESS Free ! ) supposed to correct previous bugs and introducing new ones ...
N+1) They do not tell you you have to reconfig your IDE @ each new release ....

do you still want to go on being ridiculous, having every thing ready cooked ... ???

Let's go ... here we have lots of humour !!! ( British forum ... )