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I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line of code besides the brute-force which is done by putting semicolon( ; ) to each line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spam_OUTpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu .

#LEE CHUN YONG# wrote: > I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line of code > besides the brute-force which is done by putting semicolon( ; ) to > each line of code. It's a good idea to make comment lines stand out visually. A semicolon in column 1 does that. If it's such an imposition to type a semicolon on a line, especially when you will be adding tens of text characters, then go find another line of work. ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList .....piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspam@spam@mitvma.mit.edu .

LEE CHUN YONG wrote: > I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line of > code besides the brute-force which is done by putting semicolon( > ; ) to each line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) Hi LEE CHUN YONG, If I understand your question correctly I write *sectional* comments like this: (Of course I also write comments after the mnemonics when a single line of code needs commenting) . . . ; Cache (on stack) EECON1, stack overflow/underflow flags, and RCON for parsing in main app PUSH MOVF EECON1, W MOVWF TOSU MOVF STKPTR, W MOVWF TOSH MOVF RCON, W MOVWF TOSL . . . The vertical ellipsis points just mean this code is taken out of context of the whole program. Is this what you are getting at Lee? Best regards, Ken Pergola -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu .

#LEE CHUN YONG# wrote : > I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line > of code besides the brute-force which is done by putting > semicolon( ; ) to each line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) You don't say, so I have to assume that you are talking about MPASM assembler, right ? I don't know of any other way then a ";" on each line, and I don't think there are. I assume you *have* checked the online HELP file, right ? The only way that is documents there is the ";" thing... But what's wrong with that ? Personaly I'm using an editor where I can "select" a large part of the code, then just select "Comment selected text" from the "Edit" menu and it (the editor) puts a ";" first on each line. Jan-Erik. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList .....piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspam.....mitvma.mit.edu .

Hi Lee, Not sure if your knew about this, but here goes anyways: If you are using the Microchip MPLAB editor you can get some helpful editor features by right-clicking your mouse in your workspace area: Right-click >> Advanced >> Comment Block >> Uncomment Block Right-click >> Advanced >> Format Text >> Uppercase >> Lowercase If you want to have these feature apply to any existing text, you must highlight the text first before you right-click your mouse. I guess if you are left-handed you would left-click your mouse? ;) Just explore and have fun. Best regards Lee, Ken Pergola -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList EraseMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu . 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Its deviceID reads as 0x0EA1. >>According to the programming specifications (ds30492a.pdf) >>and the errata (ds80177a.pdf) this is an 16F777!! >>But it really is 28 pins DIP.... > > > > Hi I'm not "into" programmers, I'd just like to understand... > What is the difference, from the programmers point of view, > between programming a 28pin device and a 40pin device ? > If everything else is the same. Doesn't make a difference for a PIC programmer (at least not for mine, the Wisp628). > As far as I can see from the line card the 16F767 and 777 have > the same amount of flash, no eeprom and so on. True. So for a PIC programmer it may not be a problem if a 16F767 and 16F777 would use the same ID. The reason that I mentioned the 28-pins DIP package was to say that I'm sure it is _not_ a 16F777 (I didn't mention it, but it has also 16F767 printed on the body!). I reported a documentation error to MicroChip. Regards, Rob. -- Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL phone +31-347-322822 homepage: http://www.robh.nl/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads *** MESSAGE TRUNCATED *** .. .

In assembly code the end of line characters mean something. A new line says, "Clear out the buffer, the next string is completely new and unrelated to the last string" Unlike C/C++ and others where you can put as many or as few end of lines wherever you'd put any other whitespace without affecting the code. The tradeoff is that you have to have an end of statement for those languages, but in assembly you don't: c=a; // requires both a semicolon and comment characters movff rega, regb ; requires only a semicolon So the tradeoff is a character at the end of every statement, or a character at the beginning of each line of comments. The way some people comment, there are fewer characters typed in PIC code... :-) If you really want this function, then you'll need to build or modify an existing pre-parser which takes those comments out before compiling them. The problem is that the code isn't portable without also distributing the parser. -Adam #LEE CHUN YONG# wrote: {Quote hidden}>I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line of code besides the brute-force which is done by putting semicolon( ; ) to each line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList >.....piclist-unsubscribe-requestRemoveMEmitvma.mit.edu > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu .

> I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line > of code besides the brute-force which is done by putting > semicolon( ; ) to each line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) #ifdef JHFJHFFHHFGHFHkygghjg .... #endif Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spamBeGonepiclist-unsubscribe-request@spam@spam_OUTmitvma.mit.edu .

Very good response Ken. Helps one hell of a lot better than telling someone who asks a reasonable question to get into another line work. Thanks, Chuck {Original Message removed}

Jan-Erik Soderholm XA (TN/PAC) <TakeThisOuTjan-erik.xa.soderholmspamERICSSON.COM> wrote: > #LEE CHUN YONG# wrote : > > > I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line > > of code besides the brute-force which is done by putting > > semicolon( ; ) to each line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) > > You don't say, so I have to assume that you are talking about > MPASM assembler, right ? > I don't know of any other way then a ";" on each line, and > I don't think there are. if 0 . . . . endif works just as well on general text (comments) as it does on actual code. Just make sure you don't start a line with 'else' or 'endif'. -- Dave Tweed -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestEraseMEmitvma.mit.edu .

At 08:10 PM 1/31/2004 +0800, #LEE CHUN YONG# wrote: >I just want to know how to make comment for more than 1 line of code >besides the brute-force which is done by putting semicolon( ; ) to each >line of code. Thanks in advance. Cheers. ;) This would be a feature of your assembler or compiler. It would help to know which one you're using. Look in the docs under directives, which is what they are usually called. Things like comments, .if/.endif, .equ, .byte, .ds, .dw, .byte etc are compiler/assembler directives. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestEraseMEspam_OUTmitvma.mit.edu .

I give an A+ to Ken for the right answer. I asked the same question many moons ago and got the same (good) answer but I was asking in my native language. In Turbo Pascal (yes, I know that was a long time ago) you could comment a line at a time with (* ....comments...*) or a whole block of Comments with { stuff more stuff more stuff more stuff more stuff } Which a lot of us still prefer. The comment selected block is good, but it don't jump out at you when you first get started with PICs. A note to "#LEE CHUN YONG#" : Don't take it personal, the guys are having a bad day! They usually do better. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 @spam@johnferrellRemoveMEEraseMEearthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}

Thanks Ken an John for the valuable help. I really appreciate it. Have a nice day! ________________________________ From: pic microcontroller discussion list on behalf of John Ferrell Sent: Sun 2/1/2004 10:19 AM To: EraseMEPICLIST@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [PIC]: Make Comment for many lines of code I give an A+ to Ken for the right answer. I asked the same question many moons ago and got the same (good) answer but I was asking in my native language. In Turbo Pascal (yes, I know that was a long time ago) you could comment a line at a time with (* ....comments...*) or a whole block of Comments with { stuff more stuff more stuff more stuff more stuff } Which a lot of us still prefer. The comment selected block is good, but it don't jump out at you when you first get started with PICs. A note to "#LEE CHUN YONG#" : Don't take it personal, the guys are having a bad day! They usually do better. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 @spam@johnferrellspam_OUT.....earthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}

> In Turbo Pascal (yes, I know that was a long time ago) you could > comment a line at a time with (* ....comments...*) or a whole block of > Comments with { In the olden days, assemblers had a COMMENT / ENDCOMMENT directive for doing block comments. That seemed to fall out of favour but it was a really useful tool and isn't as ambiguous as the DIY alternatives like #ifdef's, etc. Steve. ========================================== Steve Baldwin Electronic Product Design TLA Microsystems Ltd Microcontroller Specialists PO Box 15-680, New Lynn http://www.tla.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand ph +64 9 820-2221 email: spamBeGonesteveEraseMEtla.co.nz fax +64 9 820-1929 ========================================= -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads .

>From: Olin Lathrop <olin_piclistspamBeGoneEMBEDINC.COM> > >It's a good idea to make comment lines stand out visually. A semicolon in >column 1 does that. If it's such an imposition to type a semicolon on a >line, especially when you will be adding tens of text characters, then go >find another line of work. Geez I wish you'd stop sugar-coating it like this. Why not just tell him what you really think? Colin _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads .

Both languages C and PL/I and even Rexx has a multiline comment /* any comment */ Regards, Imre On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 RemoveMEsteve@spam@spamBeGoneTLA.CO.NZ wrote: {Quote hidden}> > In Turbo Pascal (yes, I know that was a long time ago) you could > > comment a line at a time with (* ....comments...*) or a whole block of > > Comments with { > > In the olden days, assemblers had a COMMENT / ENDCOMMENT > directive for doing block comments. That seemed to fall out of favour > but it was a really useful tool and isn't as ambiguous as the DIY > alternatives like #ifdef's, etc. > > Steve. > > > ========================================== > Steve Baldwin Electronic Product Design > TLA Microsystems Ltd Microcontroller Specialists > PO Box 15-680, New Lynn http://www.tla.co.nz > Auckland, New Zealand ph +64 9 820-2221 > email: .....steve@spam@EraseMEtla.co.nz fax +64 9 820-1929 > ========================================= > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Thread update: I wrote: > If you are using the Microchip MPLAB editor you can get some > helpful editor features by right-clicking your mouse in your workspace area: > > Right-click >> Advanced >> Comment Block > >> Uncomment Block > > Right-click >> Advanced >> Format Text >> Uppercase > >> Lowercase Unfortunately Microchip removed the ADVANCED menu item from the mouse right-click pop-up menu in MPLAB v6.42. (it's now under the main EDIT menu) Sigh. :( I put in a request asking that they put in back in. They took it out because they were getting complaints that the mouse right-click pop-up menu was too long. (They are planning on placing hot keys for this item in the menu) Regards, Ken Pergola -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Better yet make the GUI interface of MPLAB somewhat customizable allowing programmers to place what they want on the right click menu and features they want on pull down menus (possibly one or two customizable pull downs). I like the idea of at least what comes up on the right click menu being customizable and the order of items on the right click menu (maybe a few standard defaults always there at the top with a separator if Microchip feels there are some that absolutely must be on there). Adding a dialogue for a customizable right click menu wouldn't be that much of a stretch for a GUI programmer to do - as they say it's just SMOP (simple matter of programming - man I hate when the marketing or sales guys say this to a customer without checking with me first when it's my code). Hot Keys are a good start for some of these menus (personally I think many more of the menu items need hotkeys as well besides just these two). Best Regards, Jim Woodward Sr. Electrical Engineer http://www.moblize.com "Ebusiness to Wireless" Direct: 713-622-1082 Cell: 832-541-0614 {Original Message removed}

Jim Woodward wrote: > Hot Keys are a good start for some of these menus (personally I think many > more of the menu items need hotkeys as well besides just these two). Hi Jim, You might have missed my message yesterday (different thread) but you now can have user-programmable hot keys for various functions in MPLAB v6.42. Best regards, Ken Pergola -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

{Quote hidden}>-----Original Message----- >From: Ken Pergola [.....no_spamRemoveMELOCALNET.COM] >Sent: 03 February 2004 18:32 >To: .....PICLISTSTOPspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: Re: [PIC]: Make Comment for many lines of code > > >Jim Woodward wrote: > >> Hot Keys are a good start for some of these menus >(personally I think >> many more of the menu items need hotkeys as well besides just these >> two). > >Hi Jim, > >You might have missed my message yesterday (different thread) >but you now can have user-programmable hot keys for various >functions in MPLAB v6.42. > Which managed to stop Ctrl Insert/Shift Insert from working :( Mike ======================================================================= This e-mail is intended for the person it is addressed to only. The information contained in it may be confidential and/or protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you must not make any use of this information, or copy or show it to any person. Please contact us immediately to tell us that you have received this e-mail, and return the original to us. Any use, forwarding, printing or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. No part of this message can be considered a request for goods or services. ======================================================================= Any questions about Bookham's E-Mail service should be directed to postmasterEraseME@spam@bookham.com. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email RemoveMElistservspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > Which managed to stop Ctrl Insert/Shift Insert from working :( Hiya Mike, Yup, that was an oversight and it *should* be back up and running in MPLAB v6.43 from what I learned. Best regards, Ken Pergola -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spamBeGonelistservKILLspam@spam@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body