Running BASCOM-AVR
After you have installed BASCOM, you will find a program entry under MCS Electronics\BASCOM-AVR
Double-click the BASCOM-AVR icon
The following window will appear. (If this is your first run, the edit window will be empty.)
The most-recently opened file will be loaded automatically. Like most Windows programs, there is a menu and a toolbar. The toolbar can be customized. To do this, place the mouse cursor right beside the 'Help' menu.
Then right-click. You can turn on/off the toolbars or you can choose 'Customize'.
This will show the following window:
You have the option to create new Toolbars or the reset the toolbars to the default.
To place a new button on a menu bar, select the 'Commands' TAB.
In the example above, the Program Category has been selected and at the right pane, all buttons that belong to the Program-category are shown.
You can now select a button and drag & drop it to the Toolbar. To remove a button from the Toolbar, you drag it out of the Toolbar and release the left mouse button.
On the Options-TAB you can further customize the Toolbar:
To preserve screen space there are no large icons available.
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Description |
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Menus show recent used commands first |
With this option the IDE will learn the menu options you use. It will show only the most used menu options. The idea is that you can find your option quicker this way. |
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Show full menus after a short delay |
This option will show the remaining menu options after short delay so you do not need to click another menu option to show all menu options. |
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Reset my usage data |
This option will reset the data the IDE has collected about your menu choices. |
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Show Tool tips on toolbars |
This option is on by default and it will show a tool tip when you hold the mouse cursor above a toolbar button |
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Show shortcut keys in Tool tips |
This option is on by default and it will show the shortcut in the tool tip. For example CTRL+C for the Copy button. |
The Editor
The editor supports syntax highlighting. Code you enter can be reformatted automatically.
When you press CTRL+J you can select a template. A template is a small piece of code that can be inserted automatically.
When you press CTRL+J you can select a template or you can type the template name and press CTRL+J. If there is only one template starting with that name, the template will be inserted. Otherwise the options are shown.
Templates are stored in the file bascavr.tpl
When you press SHIFT and move the mouse cursor over a variable, constant or other element you will get a tool tip with info.
In the sample above the variable 's' was selected and the tool tip shows that it is a string with a length of 16 bytes in the modules crc8-16-32.bas
This functionality only works when the Code Explorer is shown. This because in order to get the data info, the project code must be processed on the background. This processing is only active when the Code Explorer is active.
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