STM32CubeMX and STM32CubeIDE configuration report output: configuration columns are reversed

[tarmasr]

The otherwise excellent STM32CubeMX tool has a bug in its Configuration Report output (reached via the File > Generate Report command). In the Peripherals and Middlewares Configuration section of the report, the left and right columns of the output are reversed or (more likely) line-wrapped.

See attached screen shot for an example -- this continues for many pages.

I could not find a better way to report this, so could the developer of this STM32CubeMX tool please to look into this issue, because it makes the report output very awkward to interpret.

Note that the STM32CubeIDE suffers from the same problem; it probably uses the same report generator.

Thanks in advance on behalf of all your customers.

-- David Adams

[Sarra.S]

Hello @tarmasr, welcome to ST Community, 

>> the left and right columns of the output are reversed

This is really strange, as I usually use the report output and never encountered this! Also, am not able the reproduce the same issue 

 

 

[Issamos]

Hello @tarmasr 

As @Sarra.S said, the problem is not coming from CubeMX. Most likely that the problem is coming from your PDF editor. I suggest you to change it and try to regenerate the .pdf file and  open it using a new pdf editor ( or Google, Mozilla,...).

Best regards.

II

[tarmasr]

Thanks for both your replies. I have checked the PDF on various PDF viewers: Microsoft Edge, Brave, SumatraPDF, and even on macOS Preview, and the result remains as in the screenshot.

My guess is that it has to do with the default paper format. On my systems, the default paper size is A4, which is narrower than the US Letter format. Did you both use US Letter format by any chance?

 

Thanks,

-- David

[Issamos]

Personally, I just use A4 and it works fine.

Best regards.

II

[tarmasr]

Thanks for confirming that @Issamos, @Sarra.S 

It still doesn't explain why the output gets wrapped onto the next line in all my output; there is nothing unusual that I can see. Compared to @Sarra.S 's sample output the problem starts right after "Power domain:" and then seems to stay out of sync.

Even the "Asynchronous clock mode..." phrase, which really is a configuration value, is being formatted as a subheader instead of a value.

Name/values get out of sync after "Power domain:"

It looks as if the bit after "Power domain:" causes the trouble: it is followed by "mode" as well as "Independent mode".

My new guess is therefore that the label should have been "Power domain mode:" followed by its value "Independent mode", but that the label got split into two parts, inadvertently creating a spurious value of "mode", and thus creating a one-off displacement for each subsequent label and value.

@Sarra.S 's output contains no "Power domain:"; @Issamos does yours?

Cheers,

-- David

[tarmasr]

In an attempt to reproduce this issue, I am attaching the .ioc file that the problematic report was generated from. This is also hosted on a public github repository, so there are no confidentiality issues.

@Sarra.S  and @Issamos , would you be so kind to see if a report generated from this project file on your own systems does reproduce the off-by-one columns, starting from the "Power domain:" configuration item?

NOTE: I have appended an extra .txt extension because the attachment was refused with the .ioc extension as not matching the "application/octet" MIME type. Please remove the .txt before opening in STM32CubeMX.

Many thanks in advance,

-- David

[Issamos]

Hello @tarmasr 

Using your .ioc file, I've got the same issue.

@Sarra.S can you confirm this issue and report it to the conserned divion in ST so it can be fixed.

Thanks again for your feedback @tarmasr .

Best regards.

II

[tarmasr]

Thanks @Issamos , your confimation is much appreciated. Many thanks for taking the trouble to answer in the first place and then following this through.

Best wishes,

-- David

[Issamos]

Hello @tarmasr 

Your welcome, if your question is answered. Close the topic by choosing a best answer.

Best regards.

II

[tarmasr]

@Issamos , @Sarra.S : here is a summary of the findings.

The Report generator creates an off-by-one label/value mismatch after each "Power Domain:" label in the report. The "Power Domain:" label itself never has a value (which is probably the source of the problem), causing subsequent label/value pairs to be shifted one position, such that the labels end up in the right-hand column and their values in the left-hand column on the next line. See this screen shot:

Off-by-one label/value errors after Power Domain: label without its own value

Attached please find a freshly generated .ioc file to reproduce the problem. (The filename has an extra .txt extension to match its extension to its inferred MIME type -- remove the .txt before opening in STM32CubeMX.)

This was generated with STM32CubeMX 6.9.0 for an MCU type STM32MP157CAD3, with no changes after the new project was created. Use File > Generate Report to create the report.

The problem manifests itself after each "Power Domain:" label throughout the report. The full PDF report generated from this project is also attached for further inspection.

@Sarra.S : could you please forward this to the developers responsible for the STM32CubeMX software? Also note that the same issue applies to the reports generated by STM32CubeIDE, probably using the same report generator.

Thanks,

-- David

[Sarra.S]

Hello @tarmasr, 

I have reproduced the same issue by starting a new project from scratch with your configurations! 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I have reported this issue internally (161430: Internal ticket number) 

Thank you!