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Small bugs and big suggestions :) #7

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@SukkoPera

Hi,

thanks a lot for this tool. I'm new to ASM disassembly and it's helping a lot. After using it quite a bit, I think I have a few comments and feature requests, so here we go! :)

In no particular order:

  1. It would be nice to have an option to manually specify the load address of a file, without taking it from the first two bytes.

  2. There is a bug when selecting several lines and clicking the "remove automatic comment" button: the first line is ignored and the comment remains.

  3. Capital letters are not handled in the !pet directive
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    (The above should say "Starting Zero Page test.. ")

  4. I think there is a problem with the Commodore font in the Show hex/text/char view, since the above shows as:
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    and I don't think it's correct (This is the same astrnig as above).

Now the big thing:

  1. It would be amazing to have some sort of "navigation" for jumps and branches. Something like CTRL+Click on a jmp/jsr/beq/bne/etc. instruction and the listing scrolls there immediately. Then, a "Back" arrow in the toolbar would bring you back to the call point. Of course this should be stackable, and the arrow would bring you back one step at a time. This would make the workflow much faster!

Now the thing I'm sure you won't like:

  1. I feel having the two disassembly windows is totally useless. I find myself always looking at the left window while trying to make sense of the code, I see no use in the right one until I'm done. I think this could be reorganized in one of two ways:
    • Keep the "generic" (left) disassembly in the main program window and only show the listing in the "chosen dialect" in a preview window when the "Export source" command is selected.
    • Merge the "generic disassembly" and "chosen dialect" in a single window, which would basically be the current right one with the addition of the address and bytes listing. After all the whole point of choosing a dialect is because it's the one I'm most familiar with and Id love to just see its syntax during the whole disassembly job.

Those are my thoughts that I think would make the tool even more useful. But thanks a lot for making it in the first place!

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