Second day into atmel studio... - Page 1
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author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 08:27:03 am
content: .. And i secretely wish i'll be able to use mplab x to code for ATSAM anytime soon.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 09:49:30 am
content: Why?Never had a problem with it, its snappy, press one key to compile and program/debug.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 11:01:24 am
content: petty reasons, takes much more time than X to boot the first time (enough to make my first cup of tea of the day so not a real problem). formatting and code exploring is very annoying, but i'm slowly getting used to iti have all the shortcuts i need in X too

author: rs20
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 11:07:24 am
content: So, you're not used to it yet.

author: picandmix
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 03:11:58 pm
content: +1 , its a big program so does take a while to figure your way around.Are you using V7 ?On a really old and slow desk / laptop , it can take almost a minute.Just timed mine, a lowly i3 system, 15 seconds for it to boot to the intro screen, select my current project and for it to appear on the screen ready to compile.

author: kripton2035
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 03:25:57 pm
content: do you have any ssd drive in your system ? it really changes speed of a computer (around x 10 !)it's specially efficient for compilers and IDE

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 03:33:41 pm
content: Ah, i know. the work laptop (i5 6200) doesn't have a SSD. I don't want to bother to change the drive for now, the IDE is only slow at launching but again, it's once per day, during a tea-break so that's a non issue.i'm having more trouble with formatting instead, automatic indent, middle mouse click.. things like that.i have installed AStyle formatter and that have improved things a bit, but created more problems (for example doesn't go to newline/previous line when right/left arrow on last/first character..)it's hard to come out of your comfty space!still, much better than any eclipse-based solution

author: Sal Ammoniac
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 05:20:56 pm
content: Quote from: JPortici on February 14, 2017, 03:33:41 pmThe reason why most commercial Eclipse implementations are so slow is because the vendors can't resist including every plug-in known to man. All of these taken together dramatically increase Eclipse's start up time and make it slow when debugging as well.With all of that cruft stripped out of Eclipse, it loads and runs quite fast--as fast as any IDE I've ever used. The easiest way to accomplish this is to build your own Eclipse environment using the baseline Eclipse, GCC, and a few other components. It's not hard--it can be done in 30 minutes.

author: fki82
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2017, 08:00:18 pm
content: Atmel Studio is based on Visual Studio, so if your used to that, your also used to Atmel Studio.They even include Visual Assist, which is normally a pretty expensive Addon!

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2017, 12:13:10 am
content: Quote from: fki82 on February 17, 2017, 08:00:18 pmand a freaking return key gets me back to first character of the line until i type two key bindings for formatting (or i install an addon that breaks other things)?at least i'm not paying for this addon - that seems to do everything i'm used to have for free on other IDEs

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2017, 11:31:23 am
content: Perhaps if you described how you wanted it to behave, instead of just complaining that it's not like MPLABX, people would have some suggestions on configuration options that could be changed...

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2017, 03:19:16 pm
content: you are rightit's better if this topic actually makes sense.so, what i wanted him to do is what every other IDE i use do, for example in eclipse/netbeans:- Automatic indentation for parenthesis, double coloumns and succhity such. I would have to use two keystrokes to indent a block of code (sort of fixed by a plugin)- Arrow right/left on last/first character of row go to next/previous row (i think it was doing it at first but the plugin may have broken it)- Disable the auto view every file i click on (for this i didn't actually check if there is the option yet)It's just "issues" in the editor, the IDE is actually good.Though it would be nice if they merged the two into a single product, those used to X will say let's use X only!!!! those used to atmel will say no, only AS can survive. Not sure about linux, but OSX will be getting visual studio very soon, so releasing AS for mac won't be a problem

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2017, 01:23:51 am
content: For the last issue, you can disable this. Open Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Tabs and Windows -> Untick 'Allow new files to be opened in the preview tab' (or perhaps only one of the sub-options).

author: Luminax
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2017, 07:11:26 am
content: Reminded me of that one april's fool video...In any case I'm so much used to X too that I too am hoping they'd make it supports SAM, or better yet, make both compatible with eachother! (A ginormous task, I have no doubt...)