User`s guide

MPLAB
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IDE User’s Guide
DS51519B-page 106 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
I cannot get my language tools to work with MPLAB IDE.
You may need a newer version of the language tools to work with MPLAB IDE. Please
go to our web site or third party web site to get the latest version of your language tool.
I can't see all of the characters in the displays.
When using a System Display Font Size of Large Fonts (125% normal), and selecting
an Italic font, some characters may display truncated on the top-right border. The
Tetradyne SourceView editor control used in the source editor supports these fonts:
Courier, Courier New and Fixedsys.
I have recently ported my projects from one PC to another. They don't
work or worked for a while but now do not.
Project files (.mcp) are portable. Workspace files (.mcw) may or may not be portable.
If you try to move your projects and workspaces between PCs with different operating
systems or different hardware configurations, you will need to update your workspace
or create a new one.
See Section 14.4 “Saved Information” for more on what is saved in these files.
Some of the items on the Project menu and toolbar are grayed out.
Certain context-sensitive Project menu and toolbar items need an active project set
before they will become available. Check Project>Set Active Project
and make sure
None (Quickbuild) is not chosen. An active project's name will be in bold in the Project
window.
When stepping through high-level code, if I step into a function with no
source code, a bunch of Program Memory windows start popping up.
MPLAB IDE will open another Program Memory window if you step into an instruction
that does not have an associated line of source code (e.g., library routines), and the
program memory window does not have focus.
To avoid this, first select Configure>Settings
, Debugger tab. Then check “Browse for
source if file not found” and “Show disassembly if source is unavailable”.
I cannot find all of my object files.
Make sure you have your project directory structure set up in a parallel manner, or your
object files will be grouped in the same directory as your source files instead of the
project tmp directory.
Also, make sure your source files use unique names (file1.asm and file2.c, not
file.asm and file.c) so that they will not produce object files with the same name,
which will overwrite each other.
My program keeps resetting. What's going on?
Check the Configuration bits settings (Configure>Configuration Bits) for your selected
device. Some Reset functions (such as Watchdog Timer Reset) are enabled by default.
I can't Halt Animate.
To Halt Animate, use the menu option Debugger>Halt instead of the toolbar Halt or F5.