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Subject:	BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics
Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:51:21 GMT
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I’ve gone ahead and released a new version of BricxCC. Get it while it’s hot! :-) There are a few rough edges in this release, primarily in the pbForth console. Also, the leJOS .hlp file was so large I did not include it in the main installer. The RCXTool utility is very useful. You may want to look closely at its many features (RCXTool -help will list them).

Here is a list of updates and enhancements:

Version 3.3.7.6 adds fast firmware download support when using the USB tower.
It fixes a problem with firmware download via the serial tower in slow mode.
It fixes a bug with firmware download which would corrupt some alternate firmwares (can someone please double-check this - as far as I can tell it is now working correctly).
It adds support for compiling and downloading leJOS (Java) programs.
Existing code parsing support for Java is improved.
It adds a pbForth console.
It adds code parsing support for Forth to the code explorer and procedure list windows.
pbForth scripts can be downloaded either from the console or the normal download button (unfortunately, this feature is not quite perfect at this point).
It adds to the distribution a command-line program called RCXTool.exe which can be used for lots of useful things. From a command prompt type RCXTool -help for details.
The Memory Map tool window is updated to allow viewing pointers in hexidecimal and the Spybot map is actually correct now.
It has improved Spybot support in various other places (Direct Control, Diagnostics, Watch).
It ships with an enhanced unofficial Spybot NQC API header file called spy.nqh (in the root directory).
MindScript and LASM help is integrated into the IDE if you have the latest Mindstorms SDK installed.
MindScript syntax highlighting now handles the comment keyword better (block string support).
This release also adds extensive integrated help files for brickOS, leJOS (separate download), and pbForth.

Message has 4 Replies:

		Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
(...) [snipped a long list of many new cool features] Wow! (...) The link on your site ((URL) work for me. Thanks for your continuous improvements to BricxCC! Ciao Mario (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
(...) Wow! I've just discovered Bricxcc! Thank you very much for providing such a useful tool. I'm using PbForth and I was impressed by what you've included in BricxCC. Just to share with you, here's what I did so far. I've renamed the Help file so (...) (21 years ago, 11-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)

		Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
small suggestion: when you've a syntax error in NQC, it goes like this - error is reported - you correct the error - recompile the source - code is downloaded - error message disappears In my opinion, the last 2 actions should be the other way (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)

		Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
Hi John, Thanks to your pre-built BrickOS tools, I have finally installed it on my Windows 2000 machine (I tried several times in the past... no luck !). The installation was really fast and easy, the only problem I got was that the default BrickOS (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)

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