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Fex Junior Member Offline Posts: 10 Joined: Jul 21^st, 2014	Serial Monitor Jul 21^st, 2014 at 7:56pm	Print Post
	Hi, I have a suggestion for the Serial Monitor. It would be great if I could somehow control the way it translates my input into bytes. Sometimes I just want to send a specific byte for debugging purposes and I end up sending a char that has a totally different value. Also when coding low-level hardware it might be handy to be able to input binary strings (e.g. b101010). Let me know what you think!


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Serial Monitor Reply #1 - Jul 21^st, 2014 at 8:24pm	Print Post
	Hi, Thanks for the feed back. Yes we would like to provide more functionality in the serial monitor. There is a fine line to walk between support, changes to the arduino/vs platform and implementing everything possible. Hopefully as people support the project by helping to improve the documentation and buying the upgrade we will be able to invest in the really useful stuff. Personally, I would like to see logging from the Serial Monitor to text/files/db etc. One small thing that might not be applicable for you but worth considering is using the debugger trial. It allows you to declare variables that you can update without need to recompile. The variable update system uses the same params that we have for serial.print in arduino myVar,BIN myVar,HEX Etc.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Serial Monitor Reply #2 - Jul 21^st, 2014 at 8:55pm	Print Post
	ps: The build process and serial tools work the same way as the Arduino Ide. This keeps the documentation similar and ensures projects remain compatible with the Arduino Ide.


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stevech Member Offline Posts: 147 Location: So. Calif. US Joined: Jun 16^th, 2013	Re: Serial Monitor Reply #3 - Sep 22^nd, 2014 at 7:45pm	Print Post
	re below... you can use a terminal program such as Bray's Terminal. It has lots of options for stored macros, display in hex, etc. You could setup macros which correspond to hex bytes. Then click the macro #n button to send it. Here's one of many download sites. https://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/ Fex wrote on Jul 21^st, 2014 at 7:56pm: Hi, I have a suggestion for the Serial Monitor. It would be great if I could somehow control the way it translates my input into bytes. Sometimes I just want to send a specific byte for debugging purposes and I end up sending a char that has a totally different value. Also when coding low-level hardware it might be handy to be able to input binary strings (e.g. b101010). Let me know what you think!


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rpetz Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Joined: Sep 4^th, 2015	Re: Serial Monitor Reply #4 - Sep 4^th, 2015 at 5:10pm	Print Post
	Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jul 21^st, 2014 at 8:55pm: The build process and serial tools work the same way as the Arduino Ide. This keeps the documentation similar and ensures projects remain compatible with the Arduino Ide. I hate to bring up an old thread - but I wanted to note on this issue: I agree that it makes sense to maintain pairity with the Arduino IDE but consider this prime example of why it would make sense to support this feature I have an arduino running a usb serial bound sketch that needs to communicate back and forth with a host computer. In writing my library I started to run into intermittent issues with my arduino serial code which I wanted to test. Using Visual Micro I can connect up to the arduino and set break points; however, it then ties up my serial port for the debugger so I can't run another app to actually send raw bytes to the arduino for testing my messages. So now, either I can send data to it with my own app or I can debug it in Visual Micro - but I can't do both, so I cannot replicate my issue while debugging the arduino (which is where the issue is happening). If I were simply able to use the built in serial monitor for Visual Micro to send raw bytes rather than purely ASCII strings then I would be able to debug while also sending sample data over the wire. I'm sure many others would appreciate this feature as well
	« Last Edit: Sep 4^th, 2015 at 5:14pm by rpetz »

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Serial Monitor Reply #5 - Sep 4^th, 2015 at 5:20pm	Print Post
	Thanks. Yes it's always being given more thought. The cleanest but more cumbersome solution is to have the debugger use a couple of spare digital pins and the softwareSerial option (or only one pin for trace mode). That's if you have spare memory and pin(s). http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Debugging-With-Different-Por...


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rpetz Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Joined: Sep 4^th, 2015	Re: Serial Monitor Reply #6 - Sep 5^th, 2015 at 11:24pm	Print Post
	That's a feature I didn't know about - thanks, I'll give it a try tonight
	« Last Edit: Sep 5^th, 2015 at 11:24pm by rpetz »

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