Truckload Of Requests Options

[russ_hensel]

I usually believe that when you ask a question or pose a request that you do so one at a time. However my singly requested change was greeted with no response so collecting them together cannot have worse results. So here they are. Perhaps we should all comment on each others requests to indicated support among the BoostC users?

Several of the requests are phrased as “Allow as options:” for those people who would prefer the current behavior.

In no particular order

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Plugin Enhancement

Allow multiple instances of the plugins, sometimes 8 led's is not enough

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Led block and Switch block Plugin Enhancement


Allow as options:

Vertical layout of the leds and buttons to make better use of window real estate.
Default label with the bit position 0 to 7

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Watch block binary display option Enhancement

Allow as options:

Display of binary numbers always showing all 8 bits, that is do not suppress leading 0's. This will make it easier to track changes in particular bits.

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Block Comment

Block comment by; using // on every line in the block, separate command to uncomment block. Have it sensitive only to // in col 1 and 2. This could be an option in addition to the current block comment. This type of comment is easier to add and delete selected blocks of code than the /* */ style.

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Go To Subroutine ( by double clicking in Browse window ) Enhancement

Allow as options:

Have to go to move the first line of the subroutine with the subroutine scrolled to the top of the editing window – in the current implementation it often is scrolled to the bottom of the window so that most of the routine is out of sight below the window.

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Done Success and Failure messages Enhancement

Add to the done message what is done as “done compiling”, “done linking”, failure linking.....

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Debugging Enhancement


Make green bar go away or change color when code is not stopped, ie running.

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How about a Wiki for Source Boost? If no response here, perhaps I can carve out some space on Open Circuits http://www.opencircuits.com/Main_Page


russ_hensel

[Malcolm White]

I don't know if this has been raised before, but a RS232 plugin would be nice - some way to either watch and/or interact with the serial port (physical or virtual.

Maybe some way to pause the debug process to allow characters or data be sent or interacted with?