New SpinCAD Designer release with major usability improvements
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Digital Larry
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Were you running the simulator display? try turning that off and see what happens.
DL
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Digital Larry
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It's when you go into the Simulator menu and click on "enable display", then you get the waveform on top when you run the simulator. In any case, I think that's resolved, just cramming some more features in here, will update in a bit.
Digital Larry
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Here's version 1066, "Bayeux" Battle of Hastings and all that. Has a new feature "Scope Probe" under "Special" menu where the feedback loop used to live, under "Loop" well it's still there. When the scope probe is in the layout, optimization is disabled for simulation. It will still optimize if you save to SPN, Clipboard, or HEX.
Connect any pins to the scope probe then you can see them on the scope display. Really handy for looking at control signals.
Pin muting should work now. Have a startup check for Java 8.
Obviously I'm going at warp speed here and the automated testing really only covers file loading and simulation basics, so whatever problems you can come up with are quite helpful.
Thanks,
DL
Connect any pins to the scope probe then you can see them on the scope display. Really handy for looking at control signals.
Pin muting should work now. Have a startup check for Java 8.
Obviously I'm going at warp speed here and the automated testing really only covers file loading and simulation basics, so whatever problems you can come up with are quite helpful.
Thanks,
DL
Cybercow
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Ran thru a bunch of stuff and no more Control Panel issues. Everything else I touched seems to work fine too.
In the Simulator Options dialog box, it would be nice to see the "Enable Display" option read as "Enable Scope Display". I had no idea what "Display" was till I opened it.
More tomorrow when I'm not so tired. Thanks DL!
Oh yea . . . . .
In the Simulator Options dialog box, it would be nice to see the "Enable Display" option read as "Enable Scope Display". I had no idea what "Display" was till I opened it.
More tomorrow when I'm not so tired. Thanks DL!
Oh yea . . . . .
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Digital Larry
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Haha my boss just sent me a Slack message with this guy last week. I hadn't really known who he was prior.Ran thru a bunch of stuff and no more Control Panel issues. Everything else I touched seems to work fine too.
In the Simulator Options dialog box, it would be nice to see the "Enable Display" option read as "Enable Scope Display". I had no idea what "Display" was till I opened it.
More tomorrow when I'm not so tired. Thanks DL!
Oh yea . . . . .
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This guy Claude I been hanging out with has been a great help. I asked him to make an SPCD(J now) file based on a verbal description and he actually did it. Is it worth $20-$100 a month (for Claude)? Probably not to me personally but as a software engineer (I now do this for a living in between making Mary Halvorson patches) I am flabbergasted by its capabilities. Stuff that had been sitting there for years due to lack of time, skill, and interest just blew away in the past two weeks.
I cleaned up a few more control panels (e.g. Smoother still has a problem in that last version I think). Due to the way SpinCAD evolved, some of the earliest patches were hand written and inconsistent in implementation. Never mind that I learned Java in order to create SpinCAD and developed all sorts of bad habits.
I may spend another few weeks at it but I spent all Saturday in front of the computer which is not exactly how I want to spend my life!
Let me know if you find anything else!
DL