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Multiple instances of Proton basic?

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

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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Proton is obsolete.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
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harddkyss

Thank you for responding. I have a NRF24 as a TX and a NRF24 as a RX each have their own development board and comport, when I program one for say com 1, it changes the MCLOADER for every file/tab so when
I go back to program other board I have to keep changing it to the associated dedicated port. I know this may sound silly but I am switching between boards quite frequently so when I make a change for one board I have to upload
and manually change the comport in MCLOADER for each board but on separate com's that is why I thought I could have two instances of Proton IDE each one with separate com ports say one with COM1 and other with COM2. I tried to change comports for each tab/file but it globally changes it.

I just want to say thanks to everyone on here and Les for answering our questions on this forum it has been really awesome! I seriously don't know of a better community for support then this right here.  :D
John, I think I'm going to get a few of your boards those are nice!