MCS is Crashing

[richard]

And MeLabs claims they can't do anything about it since they're not the developers

they however could have spent some resources getting mplabx integration sorted , with proper language syntax plugin and source level
debugging .
I would have paid twice the 3.1 upgrade price just for that, there is little point in supporting newer chips when common "command line"
programmers can't program them . also the new chips with pin select modules can't take advantage of the "microchip code configurator "
without mplabx

still dreaming

[HenrikOlsson]

Indeed, so would I.

They tout PBP as a professional-level development tool and I can't really say anything bad about the compiler itself but the supporting / surounding stuff does leave a lot to desire. We're way past writing programs in Notepad, compiling from the commandline, loading the hex file into MPLAB and programming with the PICStart+

Proper and seamless integration into MPLABX is what's needed for the advanced users. After seeing Charles video a month or so ago I was able to compile a program within MPLAB but wasn't even able to set a breakpoint.

[richard]

you need to go back to mplabx 2.35 or earlier for breakpoints to be placed easily, but then I can't use my 16f1619