Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

14rhb — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:03:25 GMT

Hi Shabaz,

I like this, thank you, and will be changing my Arduino IDE icons along similar lines.

The only one I still don't quite agree with is the Upload, as [mention:cff82ed12b714001a1ba5205f2cb553c:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] mentions, Arduino doesn't really debug in the same way that Eclipse/ARM dev is undertaken. I looked at my MPLAB IPE package and it shows a nice icon, although it is for Program Download....this gets awkward: is there a difference when programming a device between upload and download ? I've always downloaded firmware to ROM etc.

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Rod

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

three-phase — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:27:58 GMT

Interesting blog, I have seen the arrow symbols adopted by a few electrical software packages as the upload and download functions for talking to test instruments.

Kind regards.

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

BigG — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:16:11 GMT

Thank goodness of mouse "hover" to discover the meaning of life and everything [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-cf4320f4-e379-4562-90d7-f7bd44d03936/8284.contentimage_5F00_938.png:16:16]

This customisation is very much a matter of personal taste. For me, it has to be Notepad++ for the best implementation of an IDE style configuration method and the resulting style outcome of course:

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Still I love this idea of button image manipulation within Arduino IDE. Nice!

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

beacon_dave — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:31:19 GMT

"The icons are targeted for beginners, but I cannot tell that the up-arrow means open, and the down-arrow means save! None of it is intuitive to me : ("

I suspect that the 3.5" floppy disk icon isn't really intuitive to a beginner these days either when the system they are using is unlikely to have such a device attached to it. It perhaps looks more like a desktop printer than a storage device these days.

As you say, the arrows aren't that intuitive either, but I wonder what symbol is truly representative of load / save operations.

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

kiri-ll — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:46:25 GMT

These icons might be *really* annoying for you [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-cf4320f4-e379-4562-90d7-f7bd44d03936/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

That's so great that you adapt the tools for you, instead of adapting yourself for the tools! You are the master of your environment, like ninja

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

dubbie — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:10:00 GMT

I think I must fall into the category of Luddite. I tend to only use the drop down menus provided, mainly because I have had to master (?) so many different environments in the past, which are then upgraded regularly that I just stopped trying to be efficient/effective and just tried to stay at a state of knowledge when I can use the environments at all. For example, I've used Arduino IDE for years now and I didn't know what the up and down arrows did until just now!

I'm not fast but I get there in the end.

Dubbie

PS Having said this I can still just about remember the original WordStar keyboard shortcuts, Cntrl KV and so on. Many of them still live on in other packages in slightly amended forms.

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

fmilburn — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 02:42:05 GMT

Nice... now if only the debug icon actually made it debug :-) - the lack of a real debugger is my biggest complaint with the Arduino IDE. I used Energia (Arduino fork) for a while with the MSP430 and they had a version of the Eclipse based TI Code Composer Studio that kind of worked.

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

jw0752 — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 01:46:46 GMT

Hi Shabaz,

The true measure of a maker / technician is his ability to take what is wrong, what is broken or just what is not to his preferences and change it and make it his own. At this you are a master.

John

RE: Working with the Arduino IDE.. with a more traditional Arduino Theme

ralphjy — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:46:22 GMT

Very useful tip. I’ll have to give it a try. Although I have to admit I usually use the keyboard shortcuts. I guess the icons never made sense to me either.

Ralph