topic Gray out conditionally compiled out code in IAR? in Kinetis Microcontrollers https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617296#M36804 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our code is to be used on several KLxxx Kinetis processors and is now making heavy use of conditional compiling.&nbsp; Is there a way to gray out code that is conditionally compiled out when using the IAR SDK?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:54:31 GMT rickstuart 2017-03-03T13:54:31Z Gray out conditionally compiled out code in IAR? https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617296#M36804 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our code is to be used on several KLxxx Kinetis processors and is now making heavy use of conditional compiling.&nbsp; Is there a way to gray out code that is conditionally compiled out when using the IAR SDK?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:54:31 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617296#M36804 rickstuart 2017-03-03T13:54:31Z Re: Gray out conditionally compiled out code in IAR? https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617297#M36805 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I don't know of a feature to do this in the IAR editor.</P><P>My recommendation is to edit code in a different editor - my preference is VisualStudio since this is vastly more powerful than IAR's editor and performs very good conditional code shading.</P><P>Personally I also run and debug the project in VS and just use IAR as cross-compile step, programming and low level debugging where necessary.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P>Mark</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P><SPAN>Professional support for Kinetis: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utasker.com%2Findex.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.utasker.com/index.html</A><BR /><SPAN>Remote desktop one-on-one coaching: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utasker.com%2Fservices.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.utasker.com/services.html</A><BR /><SPAN>Getting started to expert videos: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dutasker%2Bshorts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=utasker+shorts</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:56:15 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617297#M36805 mjbcswitzerland 2017-03-07T12:56:15Z Re: Gray out conditionally compiled out code in IAR? https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617298#M36806 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there somewhere I can read up on how to use VS on an IAR project?&nbsp; Searching the net didn't result in many hits. Otherwise I imagine this thread could go on forever.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:24:31 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617298#M36806 rickstuart 2017-03-08T00:24:31Z Re: Gray out conditionally compiled out code in IAR? https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617299#M36807 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>VS can't open an IAR project but it is possible to create a project in VS based on the same files, which then gives better editing, viewing, etc.</P><P></P><P>The following is the uTasker OpenSource project which can be opened, edited, built in 10 different IDEs (including IAR/VS projects of the same code base)<BR /><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utasker.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D1721.msg7086%23msg7086" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.utasker.com/forum/index.php?topic=1721.msg7086#msg7086</A><BR />and the KL03 emulated in approx. real-time in VS to further increased development accuracy and efficiency in comparison to the traditional build/program/test techniques.</P><P></P><P>I have no guide/document on preparing an IAR project for VS (just some ready-made solutions in the link which are however uTasker project specific).</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P>Mark</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:50:20 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Gray-out-conditionally-compiled-out-code-in-IAR/m-p/617299#M36807 mjbcswitzerland 2017-03-08T09:50:20Z