viewport connection error

slcott · 2010-04-02 17:11

Hi
I am having trouble with my propeller proto usb board and viewport.
I have the usb connection and the a standard 6-9 V wall wart powering the board.
After opening the viewport application and trying to load and debug a program I receive some
errors. I tried installing the latest beta of viewport with the same sort of error.
The screenshots are included. I may be suffering from a common user error.
Any ideas?

slcott · 2010-04-02 17:57

i uninstalled the program completely and reinstalled and that fixed the problem immediately.

slcott · 2010-04-02 18:44

wow, now i'm getting this error. this software is really hard to work with.

slcott · 2010-04-02 18:53

after trying to run the most basic program in the tutorial library:
my_first_program.spin

seriously, does anyone have any words of wisdom. i could try uninstalling and reinstalling, which seemed
to fix things before, but i need to just debug a program and get some work done.

Hanno · 2010-04-02 18:54

Hi Slcott,
I apologize you're having trouble with ViewPort. Getting the connection set up requires several things- here are the most common problems:
- not running the conduit code in your program (best thing to do is start with the sample programs)
- not using the right timing constants (you should be ok since you're running a standard board)
- using the retractable USB connector that came with the PropPlug- use a proper shielded cable
Feel free to pm me the initialization code of your program- that's the most common problem.
Hanno

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Co-author of the official Propeller Guide- available at Amazon
Developer of ViewPort, the premier visual debugger for the Propeller (read the review here, thread here),
12Blocks, the block-based programming environment (thread here)
and PropScope, the multi-function USB oscilloscope/function generator/logic analyzer

Hanno · 2010-04-02 18:59

Hi Slcott,
I did update the "conduit" file in the very latest beta release- you need matching versions of ViewPort and Conduit for communication to work. I'm not 100% sure the beta release has the right conduit file in the directory that contains the "my first program" file- I am sure the right file is in the "tutorial" directory- do those programs work? If yes, then copy that "conduit" into the other directory- I'll check and release an update if necessary.
Hanno

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Co-author of the official Propeller Guide- available at Amazon
Developer of ViewPort, the premier visual debugger for the Propeller (read the review here, thread here),
12Blocks, the block-based programming environment (thread here)
and PropScope, the multi-function USB oscilloscope/function generator/logic analyzer

slcott · 2010-04-02 19:10

i just reinstalled viewport 432 after clearing all viewport products off my system and this is my file structure. not seeing the tutorial directory.

C:\Program Files\ViewPort
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is A0FC-D4B4

 Directory of C:\Program Files\ViewPort

04/02/2010  03:04 PM    <DIR>          .
04/02/2010  03:04 PM    <DIR>          ..
11/04/2009  09:30 PM           229,376 ActiproSoftware.Shared.Net20.dll
11/09/2009  09:54 PM           589,824 ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Addons.DotNet.Net20.dll
11/09/2009  09:54 PM           106,496 ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Addons.Web.Net20.dll
11/09/2009  09:54 PM         1,056,768 ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Net20.dll
11/04/2009  09:30 PM           163,840 ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.Net20.dll
03/13/2010  12:06 PM                90 c.tpl
03/26/2010  10:14 AM             1,970 cbp.tpl
03/17/2010  03:21 PM                13 h.tpl
01/14/2010  05:38 PM           674,698 Help.chm
04/02/2010  03:04 PM    <DIR>          plugins
08/06/2009  09:47 AM               405 readme.txt
03/13/2010  12:06 PM               754 spin.tpl
04/02/2010  03:04 PM            44,513 unins000.dat
04/02/2010  03:03 PM           714,009 unins000.exe
04/02/2010  03:04 PM    <DIR>          view
03/31/2010  10:23 AM           344,064 ViewPort.exe
03/31/2010  10:24 AM           630,784 vplib.dll
              15 File(s)      4,557,604 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  38,032,220,160 bytes free

slcott · 2010-04-02 19:15

should i install 427 and then install 432?

hover1 · 2010-04-02 19:21

@ slcott

The Tutorial section lives in My Documents>Viewport
I just reinstalled Ver. 4.3.2 on a fresh reformat and I have not had any problems, so conduit must be correct.

What OS are you running? Do you have Adimistrator rights?

Jim

Post Edited (hover1) : 4/2/2010 7:27:50 PM GMT

Hanno · 2010-04-02 19:23

Hi Slcott,
The "tutorials" directory and other "user" files is located in the "My Documents/ViewPort" directory- not in Program Files.
I confirmed that the "conduit" file in "My documents/ViewPort" is correct- so that's not the problem. Please try the files in the "My documents/ViewPort/tutorials" directory...

v4.32 is beta- which might explain your problem.
v4.27 is the official release version.
Hanno

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Co-author of the official Propeller Guide- available at Amazon
Developer of ViewPort, the premier visual debugger for the Propeller (read the review here, thread here),
12Blocks, the block-based programming environment (thread here)
and PropScope, the multi-function USB oscilloscope/function generator/logic analyzer

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