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EHaskins 18-02-2007 20:00

What IDE DID you use?
 
We're two days from shipping so I thought I would get a realistic response now.

What programming environment did you use this year? Did you change during the season? If you changed why?

JBotAlan 18-02-2007 20:05

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
I used MPLAB all the way through, but I saw a few freaky things when I was using it (I'd be typing and gibberish would appear after the cursor as I was typing...a bit scary). Also, I'm thinking of switching to an Ubuntu-WinXP dual boot for next year, and that would interfere with the idea of using MPLAB again. I think I'll use an alternative method; I know there's something better out there.

JBot

Ben Englert 18-02-2007 20:29

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
I did prototyping in vi with gcc, and then brought it into MPLab to use the Microchip compiler. A fellow team member who uses Ubuntu was developing our compass interface code on a PIC16 used the free BoostC compiler with the SourceBoost IDE, but ended up having to use MPLab in VMWare to flash the chip with an ICD2 anyway.

Mike 18-02-2007 20:46

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
Eclipse.

Cuog 18-02-2007 21:00

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
I was planning to use Eclipse this year but never got around to setting it up on my new laptop, so i just used MPLAB cause it was run the installer CD and I was done, next year I will be using vi on our coproccessor and gcc or a python interpreter. I will also likely use Eclipse for whatever C code I write first as I have to have the standard drive code done b4 my team lets me play with the fun stuff :(

Astronouth7303 18-02-2007 21:13

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Cuog (Post 581168)
I was planning to use Eclipse this year but never got around to setting it up on my new laptop, so i just used MPLAB cause it was run the installer CD and I was done, ...

Maybe next year, I can get CDs in all the kits. (I'll need lots of help!)

gnirts 18-02-2007 22:15

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303 (Post 581177)
Maybe next year, I can get CDs in all the kits. (I'll need lots of help!)

FIRSTclipse doesn't need 1400 CDs, but you do need a click-n-go installer available for download from SF that just plain works. I spent the better part of a day after school getting it to work on my machine, the trick ended up being specifing the library files w/o spaces (eg. C:\EXAMPL~1\E-PATH~1\IN-OLD-F~1\ORMAT~1\FRC_AL~1.LIB). Eclipse and the MCC18 tools also didn't play well at first with Subversion (Clean->Build All deleted some .svn directories and corrupted a repo I had going when I tried to commit the .hex files, luckily I was only 3 revs in from the default code). There were other issues as well, lots of tweaking paths-especially under Linker Information-and fiddling with MinGW make (which does work). It's just not as convienent as MPLAB.

However, I haven't run MPLAB since April of last year. Refactoring support, a quick diff viewer, and autocomplete are addictive, as is Ctrl+F3.

Other than that, I usually prototype with Dev-C++ when doing quirky C things like function pointers and Zend Studio 5.2 when just playing with program logic.

Robinson Levin

taylort 19-02-2007 14:06

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
We used Code::Blocks, as well as just simple text-editing stuff.

buddy.smith 19-02-2007 23:00

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
We used a windows port of Vim, along with ctags. The project was built with MPLAB.

If anyone wants a good vimrc, let me know!

Astronouth7303 19-02-2007 23:22

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by gnirts (Post 581229)
FIRSTclipse doesn't need 1400 CDs, but you do need a click-n-go installer available for download from SF that just plain works. I spent the better part of a day after school getting it to work on my machine, the trick ended up being specifing the library files w/o spaces (eg. C:\EXAMPL~1\E-PATH~1\IN-OLD-F~1\ORMAT~1\FRC_AL~1.LIB). Eclipse and the MCC18 tools also didn't play well at first with Subversion (Clean->Build All deleted some .svn directories and corrupted a repo I had going when I tried to commit the .hex files, luckily I was only 3 revs in from the default code). There were other issues as well, lots of tweaking paths-especially under Linker Information-and fiddling with MinGW make (which does work). It's just not as convienent as MPLAB.

However, I haven't run MPLAB since April of last year. [color=DarkOrange]Refactoring support, a quick diff viewer, and autocomplete are addictive, as is Ctrl+F3.

Other than that, I usually prototype with Dev-C++ when doing quirky C things like function pointers and Zend Studio 5.2 when just playing with program logic.

Robinson Levin

Yeah. Part of the problem is that GNU Make and the Makefile generator fights me. You have to do things like double quote (""C:\mcc18\lib"") to get it to work.

The other problem is that I don't think I can distribute MCC18 with it.

The only time MinGW fails is when you pass flags like "/w", which I think is required for MPASM.

I'll be the first to admit. FIRSTclipse has a long way to go. MCC18 and the CDT don't really mesh well. The error parser just fails miserably when using Wine.

All I can say is to help. Contribute code. Test new versions. Make packages. All I know is I can't do it all myself.

half geek 20-02-2007 01:51

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JBotAlan (Post 581129)
I'd be typing and gibberish would appear after the cursor as I was typing...a bit scary

hehe.. This happened to me as well, but that is because one of the freshmen decided to turn our Qwerty keyboard into a Dvorak. Real funny....:eek:

JonathanLKS 20-02-2007 15:11

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by taylort (Post 581734)
We used Code::Blocks, as well as just simple text-editing stuff.

We also used Code::Blocks

Shinigami2057 21-02-2007 00:26

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
We used an odd combination of KScope (GREAT program), emacs, and bluefish in combination with a Makefile. It worked very well, and we also utilized a subversion repository which really helped (revision 32 as of ship, we would've been at ~50 or more if we started it right at kickoff).

Billfred 21-02-2007 07:22

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
This is going to shock a few people, but none of the above. We have yet to push the program button on the 2007 RC; it's all running on default code. Some of that might change come Palmetto; for the amount of stuff we're doing to the code (read: not much), I expect to use MPLAB.

WaterFreak 21-02-2007 07:59

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
I used SlickEdit for all of my code writing. It has an interface I am used to (use it all the time at work) and some way cool features, most powerful of which is a project wide search feature.

It does also NOT have some of the goofy window placement issues I had with MPLAB.

Naturally, still use MPLAB to compile the code.

bear24rw 22-02-2007 12:58

Re: What IDE DID you use?
 
For those of you who used Code::Blocks, did you compile directly with the mcc compiler? or did you just use it to edit code..


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