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minor bug in serial monitor baud rate
Nov 15th, 2014 at 6:56pm
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Reproduces problem for me:
startup
click on monitor icon to open serial monitor display window
baud rate is 115200 
change baud rate to 250000
click saveall
exit program
restart program
open serial monitor program again
baud rate is correctly 250000
click serial monitor close then open
baud rate reverts to 115200.

Does the same revert after a download.
  
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Re: minor bug in serial monitor baud rate
Reply #1 - Nov 15th, 2014 at 7:12pm
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Is the debugger On?

Pls try setting the project property called RemoteSpeed to 250k to see if that solves it. You might need to attempt a compile and upload to for the property to be become active. 

Alternatively switch to Release or un-tick "tools>visual Micro>automatic debugging" and try again

Not sure if that will help but interested to hear

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Reply #2 - Nov 15th, 2014 at 7:37pm
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Debugger not on or in use.
automatic debugging was/is un-ticked.

would you have time to reproduce the problem and define a fix?
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Reply #3 - Nov 15th, 2014 at 7:48pm
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RemoteSpeed offers max of 115200. no higher
  
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Reply #4 - Nov 15th, 2014 at 10:47pm
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You can type anything into remote speed but if debug is off then it has no effect.

I can look at it next week for sure. It should be easy to track.

What speed is displayed in tools>options>visual micro>communications?
  
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Reply #5 - Nov 15th, 2014 at 10:58pm
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I've just tried it and I sort of get the same effect that you describe if the project things that debug was on the last time you compiled and uploaded to the board. 

Can you see if project property (Micro Debug) and sure it is "false"

If (Micro debug) is off then try deleting the upload.vms.xml in the visual micro folder below the sketch folder.

Close and re-open the serial monitor or ide and set the speed and it should be okay.

The upload.vms.xml is normally not an issue but there is something happening in this case. deleting it saves a bunch of other questions Wink
  
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Reply #6 - Nov 16th, 2014 at 12:14am
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Thanks for the help, Tim. Sorry this is isn't easy.

I deleted upload.vms.xml and restarted the IDE. That file wasn't recreated - apparently it is created after a microprocessor programming transfer finishes.

So that done, the baud rate is preserved and does not revert when I close then reopen the Serial Monitor.

However...
Micro Debug in properties has a drop-down saying either None or Full. You said choose "false"; not there. 
Seems like I shouldn't type "false" into the drop down box. 
But I did type it. And it got saved.
That caused this big problem: After doing a successful upload, a popup window from the debugger appears.. then closes then VS crashes. I don't think it liked "false" as an entered choice.

Also, minor: I get some garbage chars on the terminal window after a download to the micro. Then my program starts up at 250K and the text is OK. 
I know VS had to switch from 250K to 115.2K in AVRdude for the download/bootloader. Maybe switching back to 250 is why the garbled. chars?

Anyway, the "false" vs "None" choice for microdebug is the big deal as it crashes VS.

  
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Reply #7 - Nov 16th, 2014 at 12:24am
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Hi,

Yes sorry I meant none not false.

delete the .xml files in the visual micro folder below the sketch and the crash will go. this is where all the settings are stored.

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Reply #8 - Nov 16th, 2014 at 12:26am
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I just saved false and no crash. Even though false is not really valid it is just a string property so shouldn't cause a problem. The crash must be something else of deleting the xml files doesn't clear it. maybe reset the ide via tools>options
  
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Reply #9 - Nov 18th, 2014 at 5:21am
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Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Nov 16th, 2014 at 12:26am:
I just saved false and no crash. Even though false is not really valid it is just a string property so shouldn't cause a problem. The crash must be something else of deleting the xml files doesn't clear it. maybe reset the ide via tools>options


What is expected by VM ? "false" or "None"? I don't recall every typing a new value into a drop-down - indeed drop-downs are usual read-only to prevent the user from hosing things up.

Until this all gets corrected, I'm manually switching baud rates as I move between downloading and testing. PITA.
  
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Reply #10 - Nov 18th, 2014 at 2:05pm
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I think we are getting confused. The correct options is None or empty.

  
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Reply #11 - Nov 20th, 2014 at 1:48am
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I'm confused - because I read instruction to say use 'false'
  
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Reply #12 - Nov 20th, 2014 at 11:49am
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No - false

Yes - None or empty

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