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Slimey Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Joined: May 10^th, 2017	Problems with "portable" Arduino IDE May 10^th, 2017 at 11:52am	Print Post
	Hello! I am having trouble getting a "portable" version of the Arduino IDE to work correctly. I am setting up my IDE location like this: http://imgur.com/VtD71DG That folder is Arduino 1.8.2 with the preferences.txt file inside the "portable" folder as described by the Arduino documentation. When I rescan from the Visual Micro Explorer it goes blank and doesn't work. http://imgur.com/a/Hoaox If I remove the portable directory and click rescan it works correctly. I am using version 1705.8.0 of Visual Micro with Visual Studio 2017 (15.1) Thanks -Simon


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Problems with "portable" Arduino IDE Reply #1 - May 11^th, 2017 at 10:33pm	Print Post
	Hi, I just tested this and it worked okay so I have a few questions. The blanking of the explorer might be unrelated. Is the tool bar/vMicro menu set to "Arduino 1.6/1.8" or "Visual Micro (No IDE)" ? After restarting the ide can you create/compile projects using the avr boards such as Uno okay? When you open the micro explorer and click board manager does the list show the arduino avr platform? Thanks


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Slimey Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Joined: May 10^th, 2017	Re: Problems with "portable" Arduino IDE Reply #2 - May 12^th, 2017 at 2:31pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the reply! The tool bar/vMicro menu is set to "Arduino 1.6/1.8". After restarting the explorer is still blank. I can compile simple projects but any projects that reply on external libraries within the <IDE_Path>/portable/libraries directory will fail to compile. If I move those libraries to the <IDE_Path>/libraries directory I can compile correctly. The board manager list still shows the ardunio avr platform and well as the ESP8266 boards (http://imgur.com/a/X6NMs)
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Problems with "portable" Arduino IDE Reply #3 - May 12^th, 2017 at 2:51pm	Print Post
	Set the sketchbook folder in the visual micro ide locations window to the portable folder. Then portable\libraries is where custom libraries can be located. You also need to close the solution you have created with the zillion projects and open one project and follow the first steps guide. After you do this compile should work okay. then you can switch on "vmicro>compiler>show build folder" and "vMicro>compiler>verbose". Then click rebuild and post the output as a .txt or email to info[at]visualmicro.com with link to this post
	« Last Edit: May 12^th, 2017 at 2:55pm by Tim@Visual Micro »

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Slimey Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Joined: May 10^th, 2017	Re: Problems with "portable" Arduino IDE Reply #4 - May 13^th, 2017 at 2:40am	Print Post
	Setting the "optional sketchbook location" to <IDE_Path>/portable/sketchbook has fixed the problem! The explorer is no longer blank and all my projects compile correctly. Thanks very much for your help! Do you still want a copy of the verbose build log?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Problems with "portable" Arduino IDE Reply #5 - May 13^th, 2017 at 6:54pm	Print Post
	No thanks. I will try to reproduce the issue from what you have said. Thanks for the update.


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