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Serial monitor hanging but not Output windows
Nov 14th, 2012 at 8:07am
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Hello everyone,

I noticed a small problem yesterday while testing the debugger for the first time. It seems sometimes when I click inside the Serial monitor it suddenly stops working. The output window is just fine and still displaying as it should but the serial monitor just hangs.

To fix this I need to check clear and uncheck it again then it works again (and the windows does not get cleared). It just suddenly loads everything that it should have loaded from the begining and continues the count. Clicking inside again causes it to hang one more time until the clear is pressed.

Note that if I press clear when it is not hanging the window is cleared just fine but when I press it while it is hanging it seems to wake it up.



Using windows 7 64bit. VS 2010. Arduino 1.0.2. Debug V3.3
  
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Re: Serial monitor hanging but not Output windows
Reply #1 - Nov 14th, 2012 at 10:57am
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Hi, this is how all vs output windows work. The effect is to pause the display when you click into the monitor/trace window allowing you to review/copy/paste.

To resume the display you can scroll and/or click into the end of the display, or press Ctrl+End or do anything that takes the cursor to the end of the text area.

This is intentional functionality that is quite useful. 

As you rightly point out the serial does not stop it is only the display that stops. In the background the plugin accumulates the inbound serial data in a memory buffer. When you click in the end of the textbox the buffer is copied to the textbox and then normal display resumes. This means that no data is lost.
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Reply #2 - Nov 14th, 2012 at 12:53pm
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By the way, I see the toolbox on a tab over to the right. Unless you are using it for another project I suggest closing it because it makes vs load more slowly.
  
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