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Only chips supported by BASCOM will be listed. When a chip has SRAM, and is not supported yet, it will be in the near future since the goal is to support all chips.

When you find an error in the pin description, please send an email to support so it can be corrected.

View PDF viewer

The PDF viewer is dock able panel which is located by default on the right side of the IDE.

The viewer itself contains a tree with the topics and the actual PDF viewer.

The tree topics can be searched by right clicking on the tree. Choose 'Search' and enter a search text.

When a topic has sub topics, the topic is bold.

When you have enabled 'Auto open Processor PDF' in Options, Environment, PDF, the data sheet will be automatically loaded when you change the $REGFILE value.

It can be shown in a new sheet or it can replace the current PDF.

Open a PDF.

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Copy selected text to the clipboard. You can not copy fromprotected PDF documents.

First page.

Previous page.

Current page indicator. You can enter a page number to jump to a different page.

Next page. Last page.

Find text in PDF.

Zoom in.

Zoom out.

Rotate page to the left and right.

Print page(s).

When you right click in the PDF, a pop up menu with the most common options will appear. In Options, Environment, PDF you can specify how datasheets must be downloaded. Datasheets you can download with the UpdateWiz.

Or when you have newer ones, you can update it yourself. The microprocessor data sheets are stored in the PDF sub folder.

The names you can find in the DAT files.

For example, when you look in the M88def.dat file :

pdf=ATmega48_88_168.pdf ; filename which is in \PDF sub dir.

......

The pdf is named atmega48_88_168.pdf in this case. Since the datasheet covers 3 chips, it is stored only once.

When you find newer PDF's dan downloaded with the UpdateWiz, send a note to support@mcselec.com so that the PDF on the server can be updated. Do not send the PDF but send a link to the newer PDF.

View Error Panel

This option will show the Error panel.

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When there are no errors, the list will be empty. You will also be able to close the window. When there are errors :

You will not be able to close the window until the error is solved and the programis checked/compiled.

The panel is dockable and by default docked to the bottom of the IDE.

Edit Undo

With this option, you can undo the last text manipulation.

Edit Undo shortcut : , CTRL+Z

Edit Redo

With this option, you can redo the last undo.

Edit Redo shortcut : , CTRL+SHIFT+Z

Edit Cut

With this option, you can cut selected text into the clipboard.

Edit cut shortcut : , CTRL+X

Edit Copy

With this option, you can copy selected text into the clipboard.

Edit copy shortcut : , CTRL+C

Edit Paste

With this option, you can paste text from the clipboard starting at the current cursor position.

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Edit paste shortcut : , CTRL+V

Edit Find

With this option, you can search for text in your program.

Text at the current cursor position will automatically be placed in the find dialog box.

Edit Find shortcut : , CTRL+F

Edit Find Next

With this option, you can search again for the last specified search item. Edit Find Next shortcut : , F3

Edit Replace

With this option, you can replace selected text in your program.

Edit Replace shortcut : , CTRL+R

Edit Goto

With this option, you can immediately go to a specified line number.

Edit go to line shortcut : ,CTRL+G

Edit Toggle Bookmark

With this option, you can set/reset a bookmark, so you can jump in your code with the Edit Go to Bookmark option. Shortcut : CTRL+K + x where x can be 1-8

Bookmarks are stored in a file named <project>.BM

Edit Goto Bookmark

With this option, you can jump to a bookmark.

There can be up to 8 bookmarks. Shortcut : CTRL+Q+ x where x can be 1-8

Bookmarks are stored in a file named <project>.BM

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