Moving from Basic Stamp and MIKROE basic to PicBasic PRO

[CuriousOne]

Yes, I specially re-used same nickname on 3 different forums, to make tracking easier.

So far, parallax one being the best one


p.s. I got code compiled and running.

[TinkersALotV2]

p.s. I got code compiled and running.

that sounds like solid progress. congratulations.

[CuriousOne]

Yes, strangely that happened with mikroe basic, not with picbasic

[CuriousOne]

But still, MIKROE guys are really nature error. IDE is full of bugs. A little example:

I started up IDE. By default, it opens last saved project. Ok, I close it.

Now I started new project, write some code and compile. Everything is OK.

Now I opened some previously saved project, make some changes, compile and want to flash. BUT, the flasher will flash the .hex image from the new project which I started when launching IDE. And to flash the current active program image, I have, EACH TIME, MANUALLY PROVIDE flasher with the correct hex file.

Is not this silly?

[CuriousOne]

Another bug: "clean up project folder" does not works. While it says "files were deleted", actually, no file being deleted. Also GLCD font creator can't save the file. It says it saved, but no file being saved.

[Acetronics2]

Hi, Curious one

Here is not the place to complain about another product you have difficulties with ...

I saw You were on MkB forum @ 10.15 ( French hour ... ) , so you were on the right place THERE to complain .

Your posts there show once more you didn't had opened neither the Pic Datasheet nor the IDE Manual or Help file ...


Once more it's no use to complain your IDE doesn't work by itself ... just make the effort to learn your lesson !!!

said gently ... this kind of thread has NO INTEREST for PicBasicPro Forumers ... as the fault is totally yours.

Learn your lessons and you will be allowed to criticize AFTER lesson learned

Alain

[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.