PickIT3 not selectable

[alanwms]

When selecting Pickit 3, it does select, but when reopening the dialog, it seems to have defaulted back to pickit 2.

The compiler indicates that pickit 2 is not found. This is the reason I explored the selection.

What to do?

[medelec35]

With PICkit3 selected,
Does the default compiler tick stay ticked for PICkit3 or unticks itself and tick has changed to PIkit2?

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[alanwms]

It looks to be selected - I tried others too, but the system remained as PICKIt 2. I did try the PIC tree, but my first attempt was the 16 bit since I am using a 16 bit device.
I hit the "Default Compiler for platform PIC16" and it seems to stay on Pickit3.

Not so clear -Anyhow, I can't get the pickit3 to run. ERROR: GetShortPathName(): The system cannot find the path specified.

I think I understand that the pickit 3 is supposed to be in a path, but I don't find that path. I thought it was a simple USB driver thing.

[medelec35]

What I do is add my own PIKkit3 entry with the path of where ipecmd.exe is located.
For example, if MPLABX version is 5.45 then you need programmer location as:
C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPLABX\v5.45\mplab_platform\mplab_ipe\ipecmd.exe:

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[mnfisher]

This worked okay in v8 - but doesn't seem to in v9 (at least changing USBTINY to USBasp doesn't work - at least in Arduino land

Martin