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TassyJim

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Posted: 08:26pm 13 Dec 2021

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Calli said Ok, I tried it on Windows. Seems to work (small test .bas).

Maybe I overlooked something obvious, is there a way to load a programm from a picomite into the editor?

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Carsten

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copy and paste.

There are other ways but that should get you going.

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Posted: 08:52am 14 Dec 2021

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Hi Jim,
I have tested it a little bit in in Windows, it looks very nice

I have just found some keywords that are not recognized:
UINT8, BIN2STR$ (but BIN2STR without $ is...)

And if the keyword is recognized and converted to upper case, in source code (that's saved) stays in lower case, it should be this way?

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Jiri
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Posted: 09:32am 14 Dec 2021

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TassyJim said
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copy and paste.

There are other ways but that should get you going.

Jim

Tell me more :) I was looking for more automated ways, I love editing on the Picomite itself, but sometimes it gets a bit limited there. So a way to swap fast between both editors would be nice.

Carsten

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Posted: 09:38am 14 Dec 2021

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Hi Jim,

MMEdit V5 is a big help for me.

A few questions:

leading spaces are ignored while deploying.

for r = 1 to 10
print r '2 leading spaces
next r

becomes

for r = 1 to 10
print r '2 leading spaces
next r

after deploying to picomite.

Can i avoid that?
Because nearly all of my source code is with spaces for formatting instead of tabs.
Would be lots and lots of work to change to tabs.

2nd point is that F4 in terminal window of MCC does not work.
It's like there are added many empty lines and all becomes unvisible.
Some times after (blind) exit with ESC and y, MCC crashes and i have to cancel it with task-manager of windows.

Can you help?

Thanks!

Edit: Another Bug found:

Set RTC is stuck...

Date$ = "14/12/2021"
>
> Time$ = "10:47:54"
>
> RTC SETTIME 21,12,14,10,12,59
>
> RTC SETTIME 21,12,14,10,12,01
>
> RTC SETTIME 21,12,14,10,12,04
>
> RTC SETTIME 21,12,14,10,12,07
>
>
Edited 2021-12-14 19:45 by wolfme

TassyJim

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jirsoft said Hi Jim,
I have tested it a little bit in in Windows, it looks very nice

I will add the missing keywords
In the program menu, there is a option to "save keyword case"

It was too slow in the old MMEdit to do it for every save so I separated it. I might reinstate the option to always save the CASE with save.

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TassyJim

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Posted: 11:03pm 14 Dec 2021

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@wolfme
If you try and AUTOSAVE a program with indents, the indenting gets stuffed up. THe only way to be sure ids to remove indenting while AUTOSAVing.
If you want to keep it, you will have to resort to XMODEM to transfer files.

I don't have a RTC setup to test but I can not see any way that the RTC SETTIME could get in a loop.
There was a bug where the minutes was wrong but that will not cause what you are seeing.

Jim
Edited 2021-12-15 09:04 by TassyJim

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wolfme
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Posted: 08:34am 15 Dec 2021

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Hi Jim,

thanks for info.

Unfortunately i cannot find lastfile.bas for teraterm xmodem macro.
Can this be done in MMEdit 5 directly? How to set up?
Or how can i set up teraterm?

Wolfgang

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TassyJim said I will add the missing keywords
In the program menu, there is a option to "save keyword case"

It was too slow in the old MMEdit to do it for every save so I separated it. I might reinstate the option to always save the CASE with save.

Jim

Thanks Jim,
found another bug(?), TIMER is recognized as keyword, but just if stays alone:

ct = TIMER 'here it's OK
IF TIMER>ct THEN 'here not because of ">" direct by TIMER

Jiri
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TassyJim

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Posted: 08:52pm 15 Dec 2021

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Thanks jiri,
I had missed < and > form the keyword separator list.

@Wolfgang
MMEdit5 doesn't produce the 'lastfile.bas'
You can still use TeraTerm but will have to manually enter the filename.
MMEdit5 allows you to keep Teraterm connected and still use MMEdit/MMCC to transfer files

Jim

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Wolfgang
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Posted: 09:20pm 15 Dec 2021

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@Jim

Thanks for your hint.

Wolfgang

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Hi Jim,

thanks for Info.

I think i will go back to notepad++ and teraterm.

Wolfgang

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Posted: 02:04pm 30 Dec 2021

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This is all very cool, but where is the device file manager?
Edited 2021-12-31 00:05 by Kabron

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Kabron said This is all very cool, but where is the device file manager?

It will happen in time. There are other things that have to be resolved before I tackle the file manager.

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Posted: 10:11pm 02 Feb 2022

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Hi Jim,
I'm a great fan of MMEdit and have switched to version 5 for the Picomite (on a Windows 10 PC).
I have some questions if I may:
- to install it I've just copied the new (overwriting the old) files in . . .\CCcom\MMedit\MMedit.exe - my shortcut is to that file. Is that correct?
- each time it fires up it loads the CMM2 syntax and has no "Recent Files" (I'm using Picomite syntax)
- how do I save preferences such as last used terminal size, syntax, comms etc
- can one 'set the time on load' (when I get my project working I will use either GPS or RTC but it would be nice in the meantime)?
- to 'Crunch on Load' one now crunches to a new file and then uploads that to the device - yes?

Thanks for a great program,

Andrew

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Andrew_G said Hi Jim,
I'm a great fan of MMEdit and have switched to version 5 for the Picomite (on a Windows 10 PC).
I have some questions if I may:
- to install it I've just copied the new (overwriting the old) files in . . .\CCcom\MMedit\MMedit.exe - my shortcut is to that file. Is that correct?
- each time it fires up it loads the CMM2 syntax and has no "Recent Files" (I'm using Picomite syntax)
- how do I save preferences such as last used terminal size, syntax, comms etc
- can one 'set the time on load' (when I get my project working I will use either GPS or RTC but it would be nice in the meantime)?
- to 'Crunch on Load' one now crunches to a new file and then uploads that to the device - yes?

Thanks for a great program,

Andrew

I will put out a new version 'very soon'. There will be the portable versions as well as an installer.
V5 will install as a totally different program to earlier versions so it should not go into the old locations.
The main delay is my slow progress on the help file.
Here is a 64bit portable version with the help still not updated.
64bit is much less likely to fall foul of the antivirus crapware.
MMedit5_portable.zip

Just extract to a writable location and make a shortcut to the two exe files.
The data folder is a subfolder of the main folder for the portable versions. The ini files are in there.

try

'target port\com9:115200 s\picomite settime\

as the first line of your code with the com port changed to suit.

Jim
Edited 2022-02-03 09:07 by TassyJim

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Andrew_G
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Posted: 12:40am 03 Feb 2022

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Many thanks Jim.
I'll give it a burl shortly and am happy to await your next version.

Andrew

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Posted: 01:14am 03 Feb 2022

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Hi Jim,

I currently have .BAS files associated with MMEdit and run the MMBasic program by clicking on the gear icon or the running man as appropriate. I would like to be able to associate .BAS programs with both MMEdit and MMBasic.exe but Windows doesn't allow that.

I was thinking of either another batch file to choose between MMEdit and MMBasic and maybe Notepad as well or just right clicking on the .BAS file and choosing 'Open with' (probably easier).

Do you have an alternate?

Is it possible to use the one instance of MMEdit with either version of MMBasic.exe? Somehow choosing which version to run.

Bill

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Something that may be worth a try.
Put shortcuts to MMBasic and MMEdit side by side on the desktop then drag-n-drop the *.bas file onto the one you want.
Not tested for the above but works for other apps.

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Turbo46 said Hi Jim,

I currently have .BAS files associated with MMEdit and run the MMBasic program by clicking on the gear icon or the running man as appropriate. I would like to be able to associate .BAS programs with both MMEdit and MMBasic.exe but Windows doesn't allow that.

I was thinking of either another batch file to choose between MMEdit and MMBasic and maybe Notepad as well or just right clicking on the .BAS file and choosing 'Open with' (probably easier).

Do you have an alternate?

Is it possible to use the one instance of MMEdit with either version of MMBasic.exe? Somehow choosing which version to run.

Bill

I use right-click to run using another program (usually notepad++)

In MMEditV5, you can configure as many external programs as you desire.
The first one in the list will be the one that runs when you click on the gear icon. It doesn't have to be MMBasic.exe

I may add a second icon.

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Turbo46

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Posted: 04:58am 03 Feb 2022

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Thanks Phil,
But that doesn't work for me. I thought you were supposed to be able to drag and drop a .bas file into MMEdit but that doesn't work. I end up with my BASIC program on the desktop and the MMEdit shortcup moved to one side.

Dragging a file into MMBASIC's shortcut does run the BASIC program but not in the directory where it comes from. I need that for the program I am working on because it has other support files and folders in that directory. Sadly the 'Open with' option does the same thing.

Dragging the BASIC program into a copy of MMBASIC.exe in the same directory DOES work though so I can avoid the MMEdit intermediate step.

Bill

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