Asm sleep - pbp sleep

[MOUNTAIN747]

So things now work but I still didn’t understand why some things were acting as they were. As Richard said “You are still not getting it right evidently”. I could finish the project at this point however I was still interested in Configurations which seem to be acting very strange for the Configs I had called for. Richard had used very similar configs to the ones I was using so I started to review the differences. There were no significant differences.

I checked to make sure I had all item in the right Config, 1 or 2. All was fine.
I checked my programmer, melbas Programmer 4.50 list of Config settings and they were different than listed in my program. OOPS! Looking back at the programmer under Options I had checked “Erase before Programming”, Verify after Programming”, and “Update Configurations from file”. So this should take care of everything needed in the Configurations, right?…………WRONG!!!

The second time I looked back at the programmer Options I notice at the bottom of the menu, “More Options”. In most cases this would contain non-essential items that may or may not mater. At the bottom of that menu was “Program” and in that menu the word “Configurations”. Wait a minute; The MAIN menu already set “Update Configurations from File”. Out of curiosity I then checked “Configurations" under the submenus More Options- Program-” and reprogrammed the 1936. To my shock and surprise, all the weird things were gone. LED could be placed inside the ASM block, my PORTA.7 was now a digital I/O. Everything was working correctly. After a couple of weeks of trying to solve bizarre software behavior I find the problem was hardware not software and I would never have gone looking for this if so many of you had not said things like “ not getting it right evidently”. I may have written many programs without being effected by this problem. At this point I can’t be sure that any of my config directive were being programmed into my micros and Configs my have always been defalt. I fell pretty bad that many of you have given of your time. I also have some regret that the programmer menus were written in this manor on some important points. Lesson Learned, don’t take anything for granted! I will however say it was a great exercise in detail study of ASM SLEEP. Thank you again for all your assistance!
Wayne

[Ioannis]

I do not have this programmer, so it would be impossible to guide you there. But since you have the experience, maybe you can drop a line to Charles at Melabs or even register to http://support.melabs.com/forum and report the interface problem there, so it can be fixed.

Glad you nailed it though the really hard way.

Ioannis

[richard]

the most consistent thing i find is that the problem is never what i think it should be

[Ioannis]

Could not agree more Richard!

Ioannis

[mpgmike]

I make it standard practice to list the CONFIGs at the top of my code so it HAS to be programmed, and at the settings of MY choice. For every PIC part your version of PBP is capable of programming, there is an INFO file with all the CONFIG settings, along with the defaults. At the top of the .info file is the defaults, shown in the syntax required for that part. Below that are the options and a brief explanation of what these options affect. Open .info file, copy top default, delete the comment marks (semi-colons), then change as needed.

My INFO files are located at: C:\Program Files (X86)\PBP3_1\DEVICE_REFERENCE.

[sayzer]

the most consistent thing i find is that the problem is never what i think it should be

Then here we go Wayne;

I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before
Now I see, this is the way it's supposed to be
I met you and now I see
This is the way it should be
This is the way it should be, for programmers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own
.....


This Never Happened Before
edited by sayzer

[MOUNTAIN747]

Sayzer, your a good man!!!

[Ioannis]

I have the feeling that we maybe much less active members but the quality is high enough!

Ioannis