News:

PROTON pic BASIC Compilers for PIC, PIC24, dsPIC33

Main Menu

Multiple instances of Proton basic?

Started by harddkyss, Apr 04, 2026, 10:19 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

harddkyss

I have 2 development boards that both have their own serial port and are using the 16F887 proton bootloader going through a USB-serial adapter, lets call it port1, port2 on same PC. I was wondering if there was anyway to have multiple instances of Proton basic open at same time? My code files both have different file names. I'm trying to avoid the hassle of constantly changing ports in the
microloader app. I have tried several ways like holding shift, etc but nothing worked.
Thanks
Daniel H.

See_Mos

Proton or Positron?

Proton is obsolete.

You could install Positron Studio as well as Positron and have both open.  The editors are different but both do the same thing.

harddkyss

Hello,
I meant Proton IDE. I tried using Positron studio but found the old Proton IDE easier to use. The shortcut on my Desktops says "Positron compilers".
here's a screenshot of what I'm using.
Thanks

John Lawton

I think that you could simply load all the files simultaneously into the IDE but select and compile the .bas files separately. This should work if ALL the files have different names so the compiler then 'knows' which files to load and there is no possibility of confusion.

John
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amicus 8 and 16A/16B dev boards
Especially created for Positron development
https://www.easy-driver.co.uk/Amicus