Gentlemen

You know what you bought when you bought it. There was no secret that MeLabs product did not have floats, or GLCD support, or Trig or whatever. You saw the features, you probably downloaded the manual, you made your choice and you bought it. You bought yourself a car, your neighbours got one with a turbo. Do you sit on your driveway crying that you've not got a turbo, and why isn't the manufacturer bringing out an upgrade kit? No, you go out and buy yourself one that has. If you've bought the wrong product for your needs, then you've only got one person to blame.

I've got Crownhill's Proton too. I don't cry when I need a feature that is lacking in one compiler - I either use one that's appropriate for my needs, or build the feature into the one that I've chosen to use. If more people chose that route, they would learn heaps along the way and the skill level of the user base would go up. Instead we have a situation where people want it handed to them on a plate, and when you do that, they haven't got a clue what to do with it anyway.

Quote: "When I asked Crownhill for 24 bit sighned integers and floats, on the next day, Les said - OK" By that statement Sir, it looks like you have Proton too. Why aren't you using it? Instead you becry the fact that MeLabs hasn't got a particular feature. Is it because you would prefer to use the MeLabs compiler? Why is that?

Quote: "(and an eeprom because of the crap data handling)." That's Bullshit and you know it. I'd like you to fit 64kb of system messages into 8kb of program codespace regardless whose compiler you're using.

Quote: "Sure you can spout your programming skills..." I've always been taught that it's the responsibility of those who know, to teach those who don't. Who in turn will become better and more skilled than you and pass on the knowledge. You may have a different attitude to this.

Actually, as an afterthought to writing the above paragraph, I'd also like to add that there are people from the Proton camp who have emailed and messaged me with "Can I use your code?" and "How can I convert this or that to Proton?" which I have also done... so there could well be a general skills shortage.

I only have a limited amount of free time, and have made the decision to stay mainly with just ONE forum. That DOES NOT mean I program exclusively with MeLabs product - I don't. I've always said I program with whatever is suitable for the job in hand. I don't support MeLabs in preference to any other vendor. In fact, I am aware that on my recommendation quite a number of a competitors product has been sold. But I sure as hell don't EVER go around slagging a vendors products on their product forum using it as an excuse as a veiled advert for a competitor - which I consider the height of bad manners.