eried/arduino

open-source electronics prototyping platform - enhanced release for Windows

arduino's Issues

Line number and + to group functions

Hi,
great work, very useful. This is only few suggests.

• Add line number to code window (i know that is reported bottom, but near code line if better)
• Add the [+] to group the function (like notepad++ or many other progs). For great projects (i work on mega) i have many lines. Grouping I could work better.

Bye

Missing chars on Serial Monitor

Strange behaviour when receiving chars without any delay from a sketch as saw in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1OQ12NVrE

'Use external editor' on an instance by instance basis.

I tend to use an external editor when working on large projects but I often open another instance of Arduino IDE to test things out and would prefer this to use the internal editor. Can the preference be made to work on an instance by instance basis?

btw, you have fixed most of the things that I moved to an external editor for :)

Switch serial port detecting Serial.begin(<bauds>);

Skip the 'processing' step

This might be a hard one...

The Sublime Arduino plugin allows one to skip the file mangling that happens at the start of compilation. This allows one to use either the 'setup(), loop()' idea or drop back to the C/C++ 'main()'.
I would like to avoid the 'processing' layer and this would let me do it with tools I already know how to use.

Load last file on startup

Rather than loading a new, empty project, could you reload the last open project? I suspect that most people re-edit their last project far more often than they start a new one.

Build size isn't reported correctly

http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=118440.msg1639033#msg1639033

User definable starting template

First mentioned (that I saw) in forum reply#491 http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=118440.msg1257835#msg1257835

I was thinking of requesting the same thing. I'd like to have the IDE load a user supplied file as the new sketch template. If the user supplied file doesn't exist then use the hard-coded template. I know this can be fudged by having a sketch that one uses as their template, but it would be nice to have it automagic.

More than 1 window per sketch is being open

nid69ita
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=118440.msg1315955#msg1315955

1. I open a sketch from menu File->example, , (no close it)
2. after I go with Explorer into folder projects and I open another .ino double-clicking

I open this file and also another copy of IDE with previous sketch (on desktop now 3 IDE, file from explorer and 2 copy of first sketch)

Replace in the Find/Replace dialog should not replace anything when there is no selected text

Option to autosave when compiling

Option to autosave when compiling

white spaces in path prevent Compilation speed-up

Very, very helpful.

Where as I find a not so obvious issue with recompiling. At least on Windows XP and 7, likely others Windows. (and likely not on Linux). The "is_already_compiled" enhancement (from Paul Stoffregen) does not appear to work when ERW is installed into the recommended default directories. Through experimenting I have determined that it is due the white spaces in the pathname. Such as "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\Arduino ERW 1.0.4" for Win7 and "C:\Program Files\Arduino\Arduino ERW 1.0.4" for WinXP. It is best seen with the IDE's preferences enabling verbose output for compilation.

Simply moving and renaming to "C:\Projects\Arduino\Arduino_ERW_1.0.4" then allows recompile's to take advantage of the "is_already_compiled" feature, for subsequent compiles. Speeding them up. Note the underscores (replacing the white space and yet the periods are still there.

Simply running the arduino.exe from a short cut, using 8.3 brief names (such as "C:\PROGRA2\Arduino\ARDUIN1.4" does not work. Neither does it work executing "C:\PROGRA2\Arduino\ARDUIN1.4\arduino.exe" from the RUN prompt. Where it does work correctly from a CMD prompt. Note the issue likely is not with the path of the temp file, but that of arduino.exe.

Note being an expert, but I believe the symptoms indicate the issue is related as to how java is treating the paths with its modified tests.

As a result in that the ERW installs using such a pathname, this subtle but very helpful prior feature is disabled.

Link the taskbar progress to the compilation progress

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942846.aspx :)

Autosave HEX file in sketch folder

Now that issue #6 (Allow any Hex file upload) is closed, I would propose to have the generated HEX file optionally copied from the build location to the sketch folder. But, only in these instances:

• If there is no HEX file in the sketch folder (but not if there is no sketch saved in the sketch folder or if the sketch folder doesn't exists to catch compiles before the first save).
• If there is an autosave before compiling (see issue #3 (Option to autosave when compiling)).
• If the existing saved sketch file is newer than the existing saved HEX file. (This might make the second bullet point redundant depending on when the filedates are checked relative to when any potential autosave may happen.)

This allows for easy archive of the HEX file so one doesn't have to re-compile every time they want to upload an existing sketch. The check should probably be done against the default HEX filename instead of all HEX files to allow the user to keep a back-catalog of HEX files.

Especially useful far(?) in the future when one has an old sketch (from now) that doesn't compile with the latest IDE in the future. One wouldn't have had to remember now to pull the HEX file from the build path to have something that can be uploaded in the future without having to re-tool the sketch for the future IDE. (Sorry if the future and past stuff is hard to grasp, it should make sense if you think like a Time Lord.) ;-P See how IDEv1.x broke all (most?) previous sketches and libraries from before as a precedent to why this would be (and would have been) valuable.

Support for Boards with Arduino Bootloader

Hello,

At the Leeds Hackspace one of our members has altered the minimus32 to work as an Arduino Leonardo. He has uploaded the hardware profile/template/config files to be able to compile to it here:

https://github.com/pbrook/minimus-arduino

Is it possible to have this incorporated into the installer in some way and/or support for pulling in hardware profiles such as this? The small board is rather popular because it is cheaper than an Arduino but has just as much functionality (it uses the Atmega32u iirc).

Thanks!

allow #defines to be passed to the compilation process (aka -D option on GCC)

I don't know if this can be done already but I haven't found a way.

I #define TESTING (for instance). If I want to change this, i have to remember to do it in every file. GCC lets me do this with the -D flag...

-D name
or
-D name=definition

Is there any way you can fix things to pass #defines through to the compiler?

Add a warning when External editor is enabled

Find how to add "Pin to Start" in Windows 7 or newer

Currently the pin is being redirected to the java jvm

Start find and replace dialog with the current selection

Allow any Hex file upload

Tab/spaces options for the editor