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Hi all! A few months ago at work I've had to switch from my preferred text editor (Sublime Text) to Atmel Studio to ease development of our current reference design project, and I've found a few things that were bugging me. Since the tools team is a bit tied up with other projects, I've started fixing them myself with a few basic extensions.

They're all open source and if you have any suggestions on things for me to make next, let me know.

Feedback welcome - the titles will give you direct downloads from my site rather than via the Atmel Gallery. That means that you don't need to sign up to download and install them, but you will be getting early beta code rather than the stable versions I push via the gallery. If you don't want potentially unstable code, use the gallery versions instead.

LSSClassifier:

Provides syntax highlighting to LSS files inside Atmel Studio. Makes reading LSS output from the compiler a bit easier.

HEXClassifier:

Provides syntax highlighting to HEX/EEP files inside Atmel Studio. Makes reading HEX output from the compiler a bit easier.

MarginOfError:

Shows error/warning symbols next to source lines that produce them after a build has completed. Mouse over the icon to see the error/warning text (note: only updates after a build, so will not show Naggy warnings live).

Stack Checker:

For TINY, MEGA and XMEGA only; shows the maximum amount of stack used in your current debug session, so you can see if you're running out of space.

DataSizeViewer:

Shows and sorts the sizes of symbols in your project - i.e. how large your functions and variables are in the final compiled binary. Double click a symbol to jump to it in your code.

BuildTaskbarOverlay:

Shows an overlay icon on the Windows 7 taskbar showing the last compile result - whether the compilation was successful, failed, in progress or completed with warnings.

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Posted by clawson: Sun. Oct 13, 2013 - 02:32 PM
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I don't suppose you'd fancy doing a tutorial to show how us mere mortals could write such extensions?

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Posted by meolsen: Sun. Oct 13, 2013 - 03:57 PM
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There's a PDF in the gallery that shows a simple setup and a simple "Hello World" Extension (chapter 2, The Atmel Studio IDE SDK). The SDK is available from the partner site at the gallery.

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Posted by JohanEkdahl: Sun. Oct 13, 2013 - 04:29 PM
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Someone else posted a link to a tutorial here a few weeks ago. Could be for plain MS Visual Studio, rather than specific Atmel Studio, though. I'll try to see if I can find it..

So, you're going to be a C#/VB.NET programmer now, Cliff? :wink:

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Posted by clawson: Sun. Oct 13, 2013 - 05:48 PM
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So, you're going to be a C#/VB.NET programmer now, Cliff?

Well I've done a bit of VB in my time and I've worked through some C# examples. It's just that there are a few things I'd like in the editor for my own entertainment. More than anything I'd like to know what is actually visible/changeable.

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Posted by abcminiuser: Sun. Oct 13, 2013 - 07:06 PM
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You need Visual Studio 2010 Professional to develop extensions. Since Atmel Studio is built on the Visual Studio Shell, you can follow Microsoft's extensive documentation on MSDN on editor extending. Pretty much everything can be hooked and changed within reason. I'm brand new to all of this (started with C# for my LUFA integration, then branched out) so I'm a terrible candidate to give directions to others.

There's also the public Atmel Studio SDK which adds the interfaces for Atmel specific stuff like debugging and programming, and device information. You don't have to use that if you're making more general extensions, however.

In any case, I'm currently looking for more suggestions for new extensions. What do you think "boy, I wish it had X" when you look at the current Studio release? Throw everything in here and I'll see what's actual possible/feasible.

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Posted by Torby: Sun. Oct 13, 2013 - 11:59 PM
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Margin Of Error:

Yes! I often find myself wondering, "so where's the cursor hiding?"

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Posted by rev: Mon. Oct 14, 2013 - 10:59 AM
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ok, silly question from me. I want to install say the stack checker. so I download it and then ??? :oops:

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Posted by abcminiuser: Mon. Oct 14, 2013 - 11:03 AM
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Run it, and it will prompt to install.

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Posted by gregd99: Tue. Oct 15, 2013 - 12:57 AM
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Thanks for these extensions Dean.

Any joy with naggy for c++?

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Posted by abcminiuser: Tue. Oct 15, 2013 - 06:17 AM
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Not yet, can't get the darn thing to compile.

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Posted by mikech: Wed. Oct 16, 2013 - 04:25 AM
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I like MarginOfError and I thank you.....

Minor issue., on my Studio 6.1 it doesn't update the margin markers when I just do a Compile (Ctrl+F7) of a file.

Build Solution (F7) and Continue (F5) work fine.

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Minor issue., on my Studio 6.1 it doesn't update the margin markers when I just do a Compile (Ctrl+F7) of a file.

Compiling a file does not generate a linked output file so the system does not know what will happen with memory. I think that not updating the memory usage is the reasonable behaviour.

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Posted by abcminiuser: Wed. Oct 16, 2013 - 02:47 PM
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The Margin of Error extension just hooks the build complete event and updates the margins from the error list. That means that it will only pick up changes when a build is performed, rather than live (unfortunately, it seems there is no event for when something updates the error list such as Naggy).

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Provides syntax highlighting to LSS files inside Atmel Studio. Makes reading LSS output from the compiler a bit easier
Dean these are some NICE extensions, esp. for LSS files ! Maybe a check thru the old Studio wishlist post is a step in the right direction for further ideas. I'll look through there whenever I have time.

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Posted by gregd99: Thu. Oct 17, 2013 - 02:46 AM
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Dean,
what about a pop-up structure viewer!?!

when you hover the mouse over a char or an int the system displays the value.

What if you hover over an object or a struct... could the entire struct/array/obj member vars be displayed in a window? If the struct/array/obj contains pointers then hovering over them could bring up a child window.

I would be impressed!

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object or a struct... could the entire struct/array/obj member vars be displayed in a window?

This... works? See attachment.

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Posted by gregd99: Thu. Oct 17, 2013 - 10:04 AM
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By pressing on the + symbol for a structure I get this sort of display. Thanks. If I try the same for an object I get the refactoring menu. is there some extra step?

Thanks

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Posted by meolsen: Thu. Oct 17, 2013 - 02:18 PM
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No, as you see, my image is of an object.

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Posted by abcminiuser: Tue. Dec 3, 2013 - 02:11 PM
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Added new HEX classifier - it's basic at the moment, but somewhat useful still (Morten and I are working on making it reformat the view into something a bit more interesting rather than just re-colouring the fields as it is now).

Updated the MarginOfError extension to fix the flickering tooltips and the icons overlaying over breakpoints.

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Posted by gregd99: Tue. Dec 3, 2013 - 08:14 PM
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Thanks Dean. I will try it out.

Some feedback on the elf data size viewer.

When I open the elf data viewer the name field takes 90% of the window with the storage class and size at the far right of the window. I always need to manually re-size the columns.

is it possible to auto-size the columns so that the name/class/size are all close together?

Thanks

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Aww, Morten specifically coded it to do that to make it look better, and if I remove that he will super-sadface. Why do you want that?

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Dean,
the problem is that the size and storage class are so far away that I can't align them with the names.

Maybe it works well if the window is not very wide..... but on a wide window it doesn't work. On the other and if the window is narrow.... then there is probably no need to right justify.

I thought I would provide the feedback.

ps.... I have successfully loaded the hex classifier direct form your site as the extension manager never seems to work for me..... but what doe sit do? is there some doco somewhere?

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Hrm, I guess I could make it user-configurable, but Morten will be unhappy as I said. He wasn't happy when I changed the sorting code...

For the HEX classifier; it's not of great utility to most, but useful for me at least. If you open a HEX file in Atmel Studio (or from your projet's Output node in the Solution Explorer) it colors the various HEX fields to make it easier to see where the data, address, etc. sections are.

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Is anyone feeling brave enough to try the latest DataSizeViewer and HEX Classifier extensions from the original post? The former is now self-contained and now works with ELF files opened for debugging, while the latter now works with SREC files (thanks to Morten). Both will be uploaded to the gallery once someone confirms they do not catch fire.

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Posted by return.of: Thu. Dec 26, 2013 - 11:32 AM
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I gotta to try your Margin of Error extension. It look like a good functionality. Thanks Dean.

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Morten and I are working on improving the usefulness of the HEXClassifier - the latest version on my site now decomposes the HEX/SREC/EEP data section into ASCII so you can see any strings in the final binary.

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return.of wrote:
I gotta to try your Margin of Error extension. It look like a good functionality. Thanks Dean.

You must!

Sometimes I'd click on an error, and then couldn't find where it put the cursor. Margin of Error makes it clear.

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MarginOfError (version on my site) now also shows yellow/red overview markers next to the scrollbar on the right-hand side, so you can quickly scroll to the line with the error in the currently opened document.

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MarginOfError (version on my site) now also shows yellow/red overview markers next to the scrollbar on the right-hand side, so you can quickly scroll to the line with the error in the currently opened document.
Nice addition to a very useful plugin. I'll have to update it. I've started using Eclipse on a Linux project and it has that feature and it's really nice. I installed the stack checker but haven't been able to figure out how to use it.

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Another fix - the algorithm I used to place the markers next to the scrollbar was very inaccurate; while I still haven't worked out the exact placing it's now very close. As a bonus, clicking on the error indicators will now jump to the error in the document.

For the stack checker: hit the big question mark button on the toolbar for instructions.

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Here's an idea for you, Dean :wink: :

An "ordinary MS Visual Studio" has, in the context menu for solution and project nodes in the Solution Explorer, the possibility to open an ordinary Windows Explorer on/in that folder. Personally I exercise that a lot at work, and sorely miss it in Atmel Studio.

Would it be possible to implement a plugin/extension for that?

What would I need to donate for you to do that? :wink:

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Err - in AS6.1, right-clicking an item in the Solution Explorer has a "Open File Location" menu entry. Isn't that what you're after?

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Err - in AS6.1, right-clicking an item in the Solution Explorer has a "Open File Location" menu entry.

Well, ill be...

To my defense, it should be said that what a standard Visual Studio has is that operation on "folders" in the Solution explorer - in Atmel Studio they are on the individual files.

But that will do just fine, Dean. (You just missed out on a donation :wink:)

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It's experimental, but the latest MarginOfError version on my site will live-update, so it will now work with Naggy in real time.

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Hi Dean,

 

i really like your extensions, and i use them regularily. But i have now installed the Stack Usage Checker, which corectly fills the RAM of the Controller with 0xdeadbeef (can be seen in the memory window while debugging) but the graph always shows 100% usage . no matter how much 0xdeadbeef still is in ram. Is there a trick to making it work?

 

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Just curious if these will get compatibility with Atmel Studio 7?  A few work in 7, but the one I really want (stack checker) isn't.  Thanks for them though. I use them often.

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Sorry for adding to an old thread; I'd really like ot use the MarginOfError but I can't see how you even install it after you've downloaded. It all looks pretty locked down to specific URLs. Can you not use these on AS7?

 

If you can, how do you install the extension please?

 

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Posted by awneil: Fri. May 8, 2020 - 08:31 AM (Reply to #38)
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Doesn't AS7 do that of its own anyhow - no need for a plugin ?

 

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Posted by DiBosco: Fri. May 8, 2020 - 08:52 AM
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Mine puts some seemingly random green lines in the left hand margin, but there's no indication of why they are there and they are soemtimes on lines with comments, so that doesn;t help.

 

I realy like how MarginOfError would bring up the yellow warning triangle.

 

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Posted by awneil: Fri. May 8, 2020 - 08:59 AM (Reply to #40)
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DiBosco wrote:
seemingly random green lines in the left hand margin,

They indicate where you have edited:

  • Unsaved changes are yellow;
  • they change to green after saving the file.

 

This is (probably) all inherited from MS Visual Studio - so try including that in your searches for descriptions ...

 

DiBosco wrote:
I realy like how MarginOfError would bring up the yellow warning triangle.

 

As noted, AS7 gives you the red markers in the scrollbar (on the right)

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Posted by DiBosco: Fri. May 8, 2020 - 09:03 AM
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awneil wrote:

They indicate where you have edited:

  • Unsaved changes are yellow;
  • they change to green after saving the file.

 

Ah, OK - thanks!

 

awneil wrote:
This is (probably) all inherited from MS Visual Studio - so try including that in your searches for descriptions ...

 

You've lost me here though. My search for descriptions of what? :)

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Posted by awneil: Fri. May 8, 2020 - 09:13 AM (Reply to #42)
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descriptions of what the marks in the margins - and other such stuff - mean

 

EDIT

 

Exampe:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-track-your-code-by-customizing-the-scrollbar?view=vs-2019

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Posted by DiBosco: Fri. May 8, 2020 - 10:29 AM
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Ah, understood.

 

I think from that document, it's not what I'm aftar though - I don;t even think you can have warnings shown there. I still  think MarginOfError is what I'd like, so my original question still stands I believe.

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https://gallery.microchip.com/packages/d2d447c3-c682-4954-b6ae-899463dd1a63/
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So, it's only available for Atmel Studio 6

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