> Nobody seems to have mentioned yet that the latest "Full" release of MPLAB is available, so I thought I would!
>
> www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002
>
> (If that splits, as it probably will, go to http://www.microchip.com and click on "MPLAB IDE" in the "Design" column)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
>

> I upgraded to 8.10 and simultaneously installed C18 (not sure if that's
> relevant). If I click on a code editor window and then click on the main
> MPLAB window, the menubar seems to expand and all of the toolbar buttons
> disappear. If I move my mouse over each button individually, that button
> reappears. I went back to v8.00 and the same thing happens. Does anyone
> else have this issue?
> -
> Martin
>
> Howard Winter wrote:
> > Nobody seems to have mentioned yet that the latest "Full" release of
> MPLAB is available, so I thought I would!
> >
> >
> www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002
> >
> > (If that splits, as it probably will, go to http://www.microchip.com and
> click on "MPLAB IDE" in the "Design" column)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Howard Winter
> > St.Albans, England
> >
> >
>

> Martin,
>
> (rearranging in posted order)
>
> > > Funny NYPD wrote:
> > > One possible reason may be: developing new feature is much easier than
> identifying the root-cause of a bug and knowing how to fix it.
>
>  Martin replied:
>
> > As an amateur programmer of "real" software, I can say that I have
> encountered this very often.
>
> And as a professional programmer of real software, I've encountered it
> very often too!
>
> It's usually the case that developers would much rather write new stuff
> than debug existing - especially if they didn't write the latter themselves.
>  I think it's seen
> as the difference between designing a car and changing its oil.
>
> But any decent system has much more time spent on maintaining, bug-fixing
> and enhancing it than was spent on writing it in the first place, so the
> industry
> requirement is for more good code-readers than Prima-Donna writers...
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
>

>>    
> Anyway, debugging is more challenging for a developer like myself, and
> having a less feature improved MPLAB like 7.41 is more fun for me than 8.xx
> where I have to struggling with disappearing buttons or crashing in the
> middle of debugging - or maybe I just have to do the same with my firmwares,
> should not debug them? :-D
>
> Sorry for my bitter again, I just really confused about the usability of
> this originally great product.
>
> Tamas
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Howard Winter <EraseMEHDRWspam_OUTTakeThisOuTh2org.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>  
>> Martin,
>>
>> (rearranging in posted order)
>>
>>    
>>>> Funny NYPD wrote:
>>>> One possible reason may be: developing new feature is much easier than
>>>>        
>> identifying the root-cause of a bug and knowing how to fix it.
>>
>>  Martin replied:
>>
>>    
>>> As an amateur programmer of "real" software, I can say that I have
>>>      
>> encountered this very often.
>>
>> And as a professional programmer of real software, I've encountered it
>> very often too!
>>
>> It's usually the case that developers would much rather write new stuff
>> than debug existing - especially if they didn't write the latter themselves.
>>  I think it's seen
>> as the difference between designing a car and changing its oil.
>>
>> But any decent system has much more time spent on maintaining, bug-fixing
>> and enhancing it than was spent on writing it in the first place, so the
>> industry
>> requirement is for more good code-readers than Prima-Donna writers...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Howard Winter
>> St.Albans, England
>>
>>