What's new in PICAXE Programming Editor 5.5.1

Aug 11, 2012
  • Added 'Continue anyway?' option on start of duplicate instance
  • Updated to version 2.4 compiler
  • M2 X2 Added 'ultra' command for ease of use of SRF005 ultrasonic sensor
  • M2 Added missing NAND and NOR operators
  • M2 Added missing outpinB.PIN, outpinC.PIN definitions
  • All Added write/read/peek/poke support for WORD option with the s_W? variables
  • All Removed the limit of 100 Cases within a single Select..EndSelect
  • Corrected the following on-screen simulation issues:
  • resume/suspend/restart on 08M2 now supports all 4 tasks

New in PICAXE Programming Editor 5.5.0 (Aug 11, 2012)

  • Added 18M2+ support
  • Updated help files
  • Serial Terminal now uses fixed width font
  • Added 'copy for forum' menu (adds [code] tags to copied text)
  • Updated compilers to v2.2
  • Added _\n (whitespace-underscore-newline) as line continuation for splitting long lines
  • Corrected issue with calibfreq command on negative values for M2 parts
  • Corrected the following on-screen simulation issues:
  • 08M display of pins variable corrected
  • 20M2 display of pwmout pins corrected
  • fixed differences reading day of week with DS1307 i2c simulation
  • fixed 08M2 simulation of write command
  • fixed issue parsing some characters such as "¯" within a string