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[RANT] Webpack 8.1 editor totally messed up ?

I already saw the message from Antti about '|' char on German keyboard. So I installed WebPack 8.1 with some trepidation...

Sadly, *seems* that on XP SP2 with Italian keyboards almost NO control key works.

Can some other guy verify this ?

I cannot write '@', '#', '[', ']', '{', '}'.. Imagine write verilog code! CTRL-F doesn't work, also...

It doesn't work even in "float mode". Tried on three different machines, at work and at home. Machines used different keyboards, and different levels of update of XP.

Probably someting very stupid is going on... otherwise, Webpack 8.1 editor (even with SP1) is useless, for an Italian user.

If this it's real... really makes me think Xilinx should honestly re-examine its internal development process.

I noticed also many other annoying little things:

- "Ctrl" keys doesn't work also: forget about Ctrl-F to find some text.

- In float mode, "Replace" IS in the Edit menu (but NO quick icon), and Ctrl-H doesn't work

- In float mode, "Find" is IS NOT in the Edit menu (but IS present as an icon), and Ctrl-F doesn't work.

- Menu windows are sloooooooow... before appearing, a black filled rectangle appears, then text comes. This on all the machines I tried. Fast machines.

- TAB sequence is screwed in the "New Source Wizard"... try writing a pin, the press TAB to enter the following one... surprise! need to grab the mouse.

All of this in the first ten minutes of playing. Very sad.

Sometimes I wonder if Xilinx developers really try to USE what they do, or are they "just" using blind regression testing scripts in search of the last

1% of performance.

Performance is important, yes, but first address the "mundane" tasks!

Xilinx, usually your support is really second to none. It's one of the reasons I prefer Xilinx over the A guys.

Please release an hotfix.... do not ask us Italian guys to wait months for the next service pack...

Meanwhile, back to 7.1SP4, waiting for the next 3 service packs for 8.1 to reach an "honest" level... Sigh.

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Antonio Pasini
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"Antonio Pasini" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:43cd66bc$0$1087$ snipped-for-privacy@reader1.news.tin.it...

Hi

after verifying the hot keys in 'flaot mode' I was a bit 'breathing' as it is a workaround, until I tried the

|

in float mode - and that doesnt work in float mode either - so we can say it is confirmed the ISE 8.1 built in editor is useless for non US keyboard users :(

well I still use my notepad.exe trick to copy the | into clipboard when I need it, but I guess others are defenetly not willing to use this kind of workarounds

Antti

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Antti Lukats

I am using WebPack 8.1 with an Spanish keyboard, and have not found yet any such problem (other problems, yes, but I have not rechecked against SP1, so I will not disclose them).

Zara

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Zara

Isn't it still possible to define your own external (favorite) editor in ISE as it was before? In 7.1 it was done in Edit/Preferences dialog. That is, when double clicking on a file in the 'Sources in Project:'-view the code was opened in your predefined editor. I've been doing this for quite a long time since I never really liked the ISE editor...

Another workaround could be to install the american keyboard layout (which I'm using in my external editor since some common characters are more accessable than on the swedish keyboard). A simple alt+left shift in windows swaps the layout from your native one to the american one..

As for me I havn't installed ISE 8.1i yet since I'm waiting for EDK...

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Johan Bernspång

"Zara" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

lucky you!

the issues with the editor are the same SP1 or not, on my machine the 'alternate ALT' key labelled "Alt Gr" does not work in ISE editor and as this key is used to make | then it makes difficulties

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Antti Lukats

Ok, yes you are right. Control combinations work, but Alt Gr don't, as you say. The problem is I don't use | much, so I didn't notice it.

And I have just discovered a real nuisance/error: I have a "repository project" (somewhre I have all cores designed for EDK, together with thier test benches"): From the momet I added 15th VHDL module and 7th VHDL Test bench, Check Syntax fails with nes Module without giving and error identifying the lien of the error, and ModelSim is executed with another different testbench from the last one added.

That much for new ISE's! Keeping up with Xilnx is a reall PITA.

Best regards,

Zara

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Zara

It is possible to define an external text editor...but it will not work!. problems with file paths, I think.

Zara

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Zara

Well, it works for me. I use, for instance, Crimson Editor. Thus I've set the Editors preferences to Custom and the command line syntax to cedt.exe $1. That opens any code file in my projects in that editor.

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Johan Bernspång, xjohbex@xfoix.se
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Department of Electronic Warfare Systems

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Johan Bernspång

I use (in 7.1) crimson editor, cedt $1 -l:$2.

But when I use it in 8.1, with files *outside* the main project path, it fails, because the file name passed to editor is "project path"\"file path"\"filename". File path is OK with a file in the same folder as the project, because it is empty. On all other cases, file path is an absolutte path,and the result is invalid, of the sort:

"c:\myproject\c:\myotherproject\musource.vhdl"

And I do like to use folders to classify information, I hate flat "all-in-one-folder" projects.

Bets regards

Zara

PS: As soon as I have alittel time to do it, I intend to file a bug to Xilinx. But time is scarce.

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Zara

ah, I see... hopefully Xilinx has fixed that by the time EDK sees the daylight.

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Johan Bernspång, xjohbex@xfoix.se
Research engineer

Swedish Defence Research Agency - FOI
Division of Command & Control Systems
Department of Electronic Warfare Systems

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Johan Bernspång

Murphy: As soon as I have coded a new FSM, I have needed | character. Now I hate ISE 8.l1, too!

Zara

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Zara

"Antonio Pasini" ha scritto nel messaggio news:43cd66bc$0$1087$ snipped-for-privacy@reader1.news.tin.it...

You're right! It is impossible to directly write symbols like {,},[,],@,#, etc, using an Italian keyboard... I succeded only hitting Alt + ASCII code on the numerical pad! That's quite umbelivable... :-) It's a pity, since from the other side, it seems that synthesis and implementation in ISE8.1 achieve better results than previous releases (I've only made some preliminary trials).

Regards, A.D.

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A.D.

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