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Allow project files to be organized in sub folders.
Mar 3rd, 2012 at 3:44pm
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At the moment, when I create a folder the Arduino menu options for the Add context menu are not available.

It would really help my large project if I could make use of sub folders to organize things.
  
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Reply #1 - Mar 3rd, 2012 at 5:55pm
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info please

what if you drag/move existing files into the sub folders. 

does it still compile? does the arduino ide still compile the sketch?
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 4th, 2012 at 7:39am
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I was just about to post this enhancement request!

Some of my Arduino Mega projects are starting to contain a large number of files, lots of classes (all quite small).

I decided to place a group of files in a sub folder ("Routes") directly below the .ino file.

I created a new filter called "Routes" in the solution explorer and added all the files in the "Routes" sub folder to this filter using the context menu.

However when I try to compile, these files are not included in the build.

I then removed theses files and the filter, moved the files to the the .ino folder and added them into the solution and they were included in the build.

Iain
  
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Reply #3 - Mar 4th, 2012 at 7:42pm
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  • I created a new sub-folder in the project folder (that contains the project file).
  • I dragged a header file into the sub-folder of code that was previously compiling.
  • Build fails.
  • Changed the include to "SubFolder/FileName.h" -> build fails also tried backslash -> build fails.
  • Added the sub-folder to the project properties 'Include Directories' list -. build fails. (I would have expected that this would work!).


That was all I could think off at the time.
  
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Reply #4 - Apr 13th, 2012 at 5:56am
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sixeyes2 wrote on Mar 4th, 2012 at 7:39am:

I then removed theses files and the filter, moved the files to the the .ino folder and added them into the solution and they were included in the build.

Iain


Iain,
Do I understand correctly, the sub directory did not work then? Huh

Marius
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 13th, 2012 at 7:52am
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no it would break the arduino compile so wasn't supported but there is a new version due shortly that supports it Smiley
  
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Reply #6 - Apr 19th, 2012 at 4:30am
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Marius wrote on Apr 13th, 2012 at 5:56am:
sixeyes2 wrote on Mar 4th, 2012 at 7:39am:

I then removed theses files and the filter, moved the files to the the .ino folder and added them into the solution and they were included in the build.

Iain


Iain,
Do I understand correctly, the sub directory did not work then? Huh

Marius

Well it didn't work as I had hoped. Basically files in sub folders are ignored by the build process. But their existence doesn't break the build so it's nearly there.

Iain
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 19th, 2012 at 6:43am
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i think it will work ok in the next version, i made some changes.

the build clean is also done, thanks for testing
  
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Reply #8 - May 16th, 2012 at 8:25am
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I also encountered the following issue:

I have a sub folder in my project containing some library/reusable files. I put them in a sub folder because I do not want to mix them with my project files.

I include the headers files from mu sub folder like #include "myLib\HeaderFile.h"

I get compile errors that the lib header files could not be found - and indeed when I look in the build cache location my sub folder was not copied there.

I tried adding a path to my sub-folder to the project Include folder setting, but it seems that these paths get regenerated with each build, removing my custom path.  Angry

To my mind this is a scenario that is very common and should work out of the box.

I am becoming very frustrated with Visual Micro because it hinders me in organizing my code the way I want to.
  
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Reply #9 - May 16th, 2012 at 12:49pm
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Yes I too would like the sub folders to be copied to the temp for compilation. 

Visual Micro is supposed to be Arduino compatible which is why it currently works as it does however I agree that it's time to optionlly ditch some Arduino compatibility for advanced users.

If you add this as a request to the codeplex issues list I will ensure it is in the next release due shortly

Thanks
  
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