CCS PIC-C Development IDE Horrible - Eclipse?

[mgillespie]

I used the old V3 IDE and it was OK, but the V4 IDE is horrendous to use, for example, the find is laughably bad.

I wish CCS would contentrate on the compiler, and perhaps a Eclipse Plugin for the PIC-C language, rather than making horrible to use developer interfaces.

Anyone know of an existing Eclipse plugin for PIC-C?

[PCM programmer]

I don't have the CCS IDE. I use MPLAB as the IDE. But you can put
the v4 IDE back into the v3 mode. Here are the instructions on how
to do it from the Readme.txt file:

[Jim Hearne]

Do many people use the V4 IDE, i do but i don't know why !
I keep reporting bugs in it.
Find as has been mentioned looks like a collection of different bits.
Search and replace won't replace all occurrences.
Lines that go off the screen confuse the colour coding system and trying to highlight a long line with the mouse makes the cursor jump to the top of the page.
Code format just corrupts the text (Crashes in 8.086).

Most of these have been there since the first version of 4.xxx.

The beta of ccsload is even worse.

I must try MPLAB.

Jim

[Ttelmah]

A search in past threads, will find a lot of comments like this.
The really 'stupid' thing, is that CCS, waste time on their IDE, yet still can't get it to work, while the compiler has problems. There were comments about this in the "V4 comments" thread. Their priorities seem remarkably 'screwed' at times. It is a bit like the car designer, spending huge efforts on designing a new wing mirror, when there are major problems with the engine.
The current IDE, 90% works, provided you don't use many of it's supposed features. If you use it only at the most basic level, it works OK. I suspect you will find that people who want the extra features, use something else....

Best Wishes

[Jim Hearne]

Thats how i use it, just the basic features pretty much.
When i want to format the code i load the project into ver 3.249 as it still worked in that !

Jim