An updated IDE is available as part of the v1.4 installer that can be downloaded from http://www.zbasic.net/downloads.php#installer.
The most significant improvement is the ability to detect an attempt to download code that was compiled for a different device. The v1.4 compiler (also part of the new installer) inserts information into the .zxb file that identifies the target for which the code was compiled. Prior to downloading, the IDE requests identification information from the ZX device and compares that with the target information generated by the compiler. If there is a mismatch, a message is displayed otherwise the download proceeds as normal.
There is one caveat related to this. If you attempt to use the v1.4 compiler with the old IDE, downloading will fail because the old IDE doesn't know how to handle the target identification information that is included in the .zxb file. The symptom will be a message indicating that there was no response from the device for record zero.
The zload executable was also modified to perform the target check as well.
IDE Updated
IDE Updated
Last edited by dkinzer on 13 January 2008, 15:33 PM, edited 1 time in total.
- Don Kinzer
Re: IDE Updated
Just to note that this installer package (IDE and ZBasic compiler) also supports the new ZX-24e and ZX-24ae microcontrollers available from Oak Micros.dkinzer wrote:An updated IDE is available as part of the v1.4 installer that can be downloaded from http://www.zbasic.net/downloads.php#installer.
Mike Perks