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You can cycle through all opened documents by pressing <b>Alt+Left</b> or <b>Alt+Right</b>. The next/previous document will immediately be displayed in the active frame.
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Graph (tab "IO Ports") significantly slows down MCU simulation ! It is a good to keep it off unless you need it.
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You can repeat your last search by just pressing <b>F3</b>, or <b>Shift+F3</b> if you want to search backwards.
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You can swap the characters on each side of the cursor just by pressing <b>Ctrl+T</b>
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You can configure syntax highlighting in <b>Editor configuration dialog</b>.
<b>Configure</b> -> <b>Editor Configuration</b>
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You can easily switch between tabs on Bottom and Right panel.
<b>Ctrl+1</b> -> <b>Simulator</b> (Bottom panel)
<b>Ctrl+2</b> -> <b>Graph</b> (Bottom panel)
<b>Ctrl+3</b> -> <b>Messages</b> (Bottom panel)
<b>Ctrl+4</b> -> <b>Todo</b> (Bottom panel)
<b>Ctrl+5</b> -> <b>Calculator</b> (Bottom panel)
<b>Ctrl+6</b> -> <b>Graph</b> (Bottom panel)
<b>Ctrl+7</b> -> <b>Bookmarks</b> (Right panel)
<b>Ctrl+8</b> -> <b>Breakpoints</b> (Right panel)
<b>Ctrl+9</b> -> <b>Register watches</b> (Right panel)
<b>Ctrl+0</b> -> <b>Instruction</b> (Right panel)
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Sometimes you can make your work easier with editor command line. Inkove it by <b>F10</b> and type <b>help list</b> to get list of avaliable commands.
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Use <b>quick search bars</b>. For instance you need to find a file in list of opened file. Write the name of that file to entrybox below the list and it's done.
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Burn your MSC51 manual (or better colleague's manual). Tab <b>"Instruction details"</b> (<b>Ctrl+0</b>) in the right panel gives you a list of all possible operands for instruction on current line in the editor.
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You can use function <b>Auto-indent</b> to make badly formated code more readable.
main: mov A, #55h
mov R0,#20h
movx @R0, A
sjmp main
<b>Tools</b> -> <b>Auto indent</b>
main: mov A, #55h
mov R0, #20h
movx @R0, A
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Almost all shortcuts can be redefined in <b>Shortcuts configuration</b> dialog
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You can edit content of external data memory and program memory with embedded hexadecimal editor. <b>Simulator</b> -> <b>Show ... memory</b>. So you can write programs directly in machine code (but is's better to use compiler).
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You can quickly open files using <b>Filesystem browser</b> on left panel.
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This program have also supprot for command line interaface (CLI). Run <b>mcu8051ide --help</b> to get list of possible options.
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Sometimes you might need to run an external program (e.g program uploader). In MCU 8051 IDE it can be accomplished by <b>Custom commands</b> ( <b>Configure</b> -> <b>Custom commands</b> ).
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You can export current document (assembly language source) as XHTML-1.1 or LaTeX.
<b>Tools</b> -> <b>Export as ...</b>
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You can convert between Intel® HEX 8 and binary files.
<b>Tools</b> -> <b>... -> ...</b>
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Right panel provides list of bookmarks and breakpoints defined in the editor.
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You can use various encodings and EOLs (End Of Line).
<b>Tools</b> -> <b>Encoding/EOL</b>
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<b>Register watches</b> can make your work much easier. You can find them in the Right panel. Enter hexadecimal address of register which you want to watch to entry box with label "Addr" and press Enter. (1 or 2 hexadecimal digits means <b>IDATA</b> and 3 or 4 digits means <b>XDATA</b>)
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You can discuss this project at <b>http://mcu8051ide.sourceforge.net</b>.
If you do find a bug, please report it either via <b>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=185864&atid=914981</b> or via mail <b>martin.osmera@gmail.com</b>.
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You can customize compiler behavior in <b>Compiler config</b> dialog.
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You can enable/disable <b>popup-based completion</b> in editor configuration dialog.
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You can significantly improve simulator speed by:
<b>1)</b> Disabling <b>Step back function</b>
<b>2)</b> Disabling <b>Graph</b>
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Editor can be splitted vertical or horizontal. It Right click on editor status bar and choose split.
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You can step your program back, default key shortcut is: <b>Ctrl+F7</b>. Behavior of this capability can be modified in simulator configuration dialog.
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MCU 8051 IDE can "hibernate" running program into a file. Later you can resume the hibernated program excatly from the same point where it was hibernated.
<b>Simulator</b> -> <b> Hibernate program </b>
<b>Simulator</b> -> <b> Resume hibernated program </b>
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You can navigate simulator to certain line in your source code. Press <b>Ctrl+G</b> in simulator mode and choose line. Simulator will set PC (Program Counter) to address in program memory coresponding to your choosen line.
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MCU 8051 IDE assembler can perform certain code optimalizations. They are enabled by default but you can disable the in compiler configuration dialog.
More about optimalizations:
LJMP code11 --> AJMP code11
LJMP code8 --> SJMP code11
LJMP code8 --> SJMP code8
AJMP code8 --> SJMP code8
LCALL code11 --> ACALL code11
MOV 224d, ... --> MOV A, ...
MOV ..., 224d --> MOV ..., A
SETB 215 --> SETB C
CLR 215 --> CLR C
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Sometimes it is not easy to track subprograms and interrupts invocations. In this IDE you can track them quite easily usining "Interrupt monitor" (<b>Simulator -> Interrupt Monitor</b>) and "List of subprograms" (<b>Ctrl+0</b>).
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<b>Map of SFR</b> (<b>Simulator -> Map of SFR</b>) can provide you a transparent view of all special function registers avaliable on your choosen MCU.
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