Thought I'd put together a spot to post questions specifically about mcBuilder

1. to start out with, as I mentioned, I don't think the debug system is getting loaded correctly

2. Can't figure out how to connect up using the USB console to my controller, doesn't seem to identify the connection . therefore i can't send commands or recieve either.

3. the builder shows errors that are generated in other areas of code that the user may not have modified. this may cause confusion as they are more related to branch code than core code. Supposedly the user only cares about what they are working on.

using windows XP and mcbuilder Alpha

This tool seems awesome and I hope to use it for a full-on project soon.

will post later with more thoughts.

Cool - please keep the comments coming! I have just barely finished putting this together, so any thoughts/suggestions/whatever are very welcome.

1. I'll check the debug system. Are you getting build errors when you try to make a call to Debug()? If not, what are you seeing?

2. For USB, make sure you've a) included the USB system via the info dialog and b) made a call to Usb_SetActive(1) in Run() in order to turn on the USB on the board. I do need to test the usb/serial code on Windows more. It's working reliably on OS X.

3. I think ideally the core code will build without errors to avoid this issue. This will be addressed in a forthcoming update of the firmware code.

Ah - since the Debug system relies on OSC, make sure you have OSC turned on in the project info dialog. A clean and build should sort you out.

sweet, i'll take a closer look when i get back from my business trip.

I believe I am having the same problem as Aaron with the USB.  It's not that the project I built is using USB and that is missing.  It's that when I open the USB Console, nothing shows up in the ports list so I can't use whatever features are available there (I would assume OSC commands and uploading firmware).

MC Helper works fine for me as far as recognizing the MC as COM6 and "Samba Board".

MCBuilder aslo seems to crash every few minutes on the laptop I am using (XP Pro SP2)  Here is the message in the Event Viewer:

Faulting application mcbuilder.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x100011c5.

If I don't close the error message I can still edit the file I was working on and even build it.  I didn't realize this the first time it crashed so I lost some changes, but the next time I did find I could save the files and do a copy/paste into notepad just to make sure I had the code.  Let me know if you need any other info about the error.

I like the potential of this project, it will make it a lot easier for people to get into programming the MC without having to setup a larger IDE like Eclipse.