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SERIALISATEUR
PicBasic and PicBasic Pro are high quality compilers by Melabs for the Pic range of Microchip microcontrollers, especially when used through the excellent MicroCode Studio by Mecanique development interface and bootloader.
For in-house purposes I have written a Delphi program whose role is to create an include file containing the following information:
- Incremental serial number
- Compile date information
- Software version information
- A free format window may be used for entering any allowable code.
Download executable program "Serialisateur".
How to use the program:
unzip it into a directory of your choice.
- create a link to serialisateur.exe and launch the program;
if you get a "requires vclsmp50.bpl" message", then you need to copy the included file "vclsmp50.bpl" into folder "C:\Windows\System" where it belongs (it is a Borland Delphi 5 file that may also reside in the same folder as "serialisateur" if it is not used by other programs written in Delphi). Thanks to Pete for stressing the problem.
- using the top right button, browse to the directory where you PicBasic application resides, choose an existing file previously created by serialisateur, or, if none exists, chose a name for the included file you want to create; default is SerInfo.bas in "Serialisateur"'s directory, the name does not matter but the extension shoud be either ".bas" or ".inc".
- heck or uncheck the three checkboxes according to what information you need among Serial Number, Compilation date information or Software Version information.
- add text to the free format window: this should be acceptable syntax for PicBasic or PicBasic Pro, i.e. comments, constants, symbols, defines and variable definitions or labels and instructions; of course no syntax checking is done. The window may be empty if no code addition is necessary.
- save (refresh) the output file using the "save" button.
Each time you'll increment the SN the file will be rewritten; after doing so you may recompile you application using Microcode Studio or Code Designer or any other development environment; each ".hex" file obtained that way will carry a new serial number.
All values for SN# or Major/Minor version numbers can be modified freely; compilation date is obtained from the operating system in real time.
Feel free to use this program at will, please suggest any improvement you'd have in mind.
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