Monday, November 19, 2007

    Some notable changes in MPLAB IDE 8.00

    I put together a short list of notable changes in 8.00. Note that there were many more changes than what I've listed here (mostly device- or tool-specific changes). This list shows only the changes that I thought would of interest to most users.

    Editor
    • Improved autocomplete feature to skip the compiler-generated fake name for anonymous structures.
    • Improved Find-in-Files to remember previously used settings.
    • Improved match (Ctrl+M) to movesbetween conditional compilation directives (e.g. #if, #else, #endif)
    • Added a close button to the tabbed editor.
    • Improved autocomplete list to scroll the auto selected item to the top of the list rather than the bottom.
    • Prevent editor from scrolling back to cursor position when changing window focus.
    • Fixed refresh of displayed text when scrolling vertically after scrolling right.
    • Fixed Hard-tab outdent feature (Shift+tab) to remove only one tab instead of two.
    Watch Window
    • Fixed 7.62 bug displaying ASM30-defined file-scope variables with the COFF object-file format.
    • Added support for viewing ASM30 variables with the ELF/DWARF object-file format
    • Improved the SFR-bitfield mouseover tooltip to constrain itself to the visible desktop area.
    MPLAB SIM
    • Improved the status bar to display specified oscillator frequency.

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