PIC16F628A Will not run at all....

[thasatelliteguy]

Hi,
With PBP3, which you must have since you've been using the #CONFIG/#ENDCONFIG directives the easiest way is to look in the DEVICE_REFERENCE folder and open up the .INFO file for your particular device. There you will find two things, A) What PBP is using by default and B) All the options available. Just remember that whenever you put the #CONFIG/#ENDCONFIG in your program ALL of the PBP default settings will be replaced so make sure that you either include a setting for all selections or know what they are by (hardware) default.

Yet another option is to use the new meCONFIG from meLabs and let it generate the CONFIG code for you.

Yes, thank you. I had found this right before reading your post. Honestly, with the three different ways, plus finding C code in searches as well, this makes learning how to do the config extremely frustrating. Every time you think you understand a little part of it, it gets changes on you 2 more times...lol I found the reference to the configs in the device folder in the PBP manual and now FINALLY I understand it. (Sure wish I had known about that low voltage programming before I scrapped out that chip turning off MCLRE!) I haven't checked out the melabs tool yet, maybe I will. So far I am totally unimpressed with MPLAB altogether. I am so sick of retyping my work because they have boycotted the tilde for some reason. Also, pasting ANYTHING with most symbols locks it up tight too. I'm about to try out MC Studio....

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
Yes, I understand it's confusing with the pre PBP3 style CONFIG. It's a lot better with PBP3 than it was before though! However, I've got no sympathy for looking at C code and trying to implement THAT in PBP :-)

As for MPLAB(X) there is ONE reason (for me that is) to use it with PBP and that's source level debugging, if you don't need that then you don't need MPLAB(X). Personally I've tried to get MBLABX up and running twice and given up both times, feeling very stupid on both occasions.

/Henrik.

[thasatelliteguy]

I have now been on MC Studio for a couple days, and I have to say it rocks compared to mplabx. It auto-corrects capitalizations, and best of all it doesn't seize like an epileptic in a disco every five minutes...