Hi I,
From what I understand Oshonsoft is perhaps the only program, that will do what I need, in my price bracket. I would be happy to pay an extra donation for upkeep of the program, as it has given me a lot of help and pleasure. It's just a shame that its failures take effort to sort out. (And I have to rely on others to sort them out)
I'm not capable of trying more than one thing at a time. At the moment I'm working with MPLAB, and as you say it may be ok, we'll stick to that for now and see if it indeed does do what I want.
thanks, C.