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New Arduino IDE

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There's been a few couple of upgrades to the Arudino IDE over the last month.

 

Arduino - Software

https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/shared/revisions.txt

 

As I'm getting started with the Yun it's nice to see that some of the issues around that have been resolved but I think the feature I'm most interested in is the Library Manager, this should make working on different projects a whole lot easier.

  • in reply to neilk

    I suppose that the fact that your libraries are already visible in 1.6.2 IDE is because the uninstaller only knows the files installed, so the settings files - generated locally by the first run and then modified by the preferences or other ways - are persistent from one setup to another.

  • in reply to neilk

    Neil,

              I do exactly as you do, keep my sketches in their own folder under the C:\ mysketches .  Libraries are a sub folder under  mysketches.  I put all my downloaded libraries in there and I have never had any problem with any IDE version right up to 1.6.3.  I cannot understand why the default path is something like C:\Windows\users\tomDickHarry\documents\Arduino, what a path!  I also put the manually installed Arduino IDE's directly under the C drive.  The .exe. installed ones go under programs(86).

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Exactly, Enrico, but I think what really pleased me was they are not only visible, but actually useable! So I no longer have to re-install all my extra libraries each time I upgrade the IDE. image That's got to be good.

  • in reply to bobcroft

    Hi Bob - in fact I go a little further further. All my Arduino "stuff", except for the IDE installation, Is held on a separate drive and in a top level folder that is synchronised by Dropbox. For me this means that I can work on both my desktop and my somewhat less powerful netbook, provided I install the IDE on both. It's very useful when I want to take Arduino on the road image

  • in reply to neilk

    Nice. I make something like because all the essential things are on the Mac hard disks. When I need to work on Arduino under windows from one of the Virtualbox Win machines installed on the mac, I use the same location shared to the virtual machine. Then same on the local network when I use another computer, including a couple of Ubuntu devices.

  • in reply to neilk

    I no longer have to re-install all my extra libraries each time I upgrade the IDE.

    Well, assuming that they don't change the way they search for libraries.  (Again!  Which was the only reason you had to reinstall them in the first place.) (although, the previous changes were generally for good reasons...)

  • in reply to WestfW

    Well, assuming that they don't change the way they search for libraries

    who knows what they will do next?

  • in reply to neilk

    I no longer have to re-install all my extra libraries each time I upgrade the IDE

    I have multiple versions of IDE mainly because the earlier days there were some libraries that worked on 023 and others on 1.x.

    I always had the Arduino IDE's in their own subdirectory, and simply copied any 'extra' libraries into the libraries folder if I added a new version.

     

    It also meant it was easy to run from a memory stick....so hopefully they haven't killed that option.

     

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    All of my sketches and libraries get stored in dropbox as I use multiple different computers and platforms.  That way if I'm at work, at home, at the cabin, or out on the road I can still have access to them, well, at least until the cloud goes down...

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Enrico, I thought it was a symbolic link from the way it behaves but it turned out to be something stranger. As mentioned above there are "rules" about where you can write files when running an application. One of those is "thou shalt not write to program files", they introduced something in Vista, that I did not know about, "VirtualStore".

     

    What happens is when an unauthorised application tries to write to program files. Windows actually writes it to %LocalAppData%\VirtualStore\Program Files\ instead.

     

    http://portableapps.com/node/35519