Help in Starting Spin Project in Simple IDE

pjv

Hi There;

I have been using the Spin Tool to write assembly programs for a long time now, and am wanting to have a go at using the new Simple IDE because it offers better convenience to the terminal window for debugging.

But I'm having a bear of a time trying to figure out what file paths are required, or what needs to be plugged into the various boxes to make this happen. It seems to want to push me into a C/C++ approach which is not what I'm looking for. For the time being at least, I want to stay strictly with Spin/Assembler.

I start the Simple IDE up, and select NEW from the Project Menu bar, and it opens the editor window. Then I select SPIN for my compiler choice in the lower left hand portion. Then write some code and try to Save As, only to have it complain about No Blank Project. Very frustrating in trying all sorts of combinations to solve this. There must be a better way ........................

Is there detailed information anywhere (it does not exist in the SimpleIDE User Guide) where one can be guided through this process for Spin-only coding ?

HELP !!!! please.

Cheers,

Peter (pjv)

Cluso99

I thought PropellerIDE was supposed to be for spin/pasm whereas SimpleIDE was mainly for C/C++ ???
Have you tried PropellerIDE?

JonnyMac

While you *can* use SimpleIDE for Spin programs, it's not ideal -- hence PropellerIDE was created.

pjv

Cluso99 and Jon;

Thanks.... I was not aware there was a difference between these programs. Thanks a lot.

Running smoothly with PropellerIDE now with the better access terminal window. But I do see some things that are missing from the original Propeller tool such as Hubram display, cog label addresses and some more, so will not be abandoning the old faithful !

BTW, with some more messing around I seem to have gotten some success with SimpleIDE.

Thanks for your help.

Peter (pjv)