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Mar 7th, 2015 at 4:00am
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Has anyone had any success using Visual Micro with the (100% Uno-compatible) MicroView?  I've got its library imported into VS, the code compiles, uploads (tx LEDs blink), and then... nothing.  The screen remains blank.  No errors or messages.  I can use the MicroView with the regular Arduino IDE without a problem.  I'm using MicroView's USB programmer, if that makes any difference.  Tried Arduino versions 1.5 and 1.6, board type set to Uno. 
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Reply #1 - Mar 7th, 2015 at 4:33am
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Hi,

Please switch off "tools>visual micro>automatic debugging" so that we know the debugger isn't confusing things.

Then try another upload.

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Turned off auto-debugging as per the instructions, but met with the same result.  I know something is communicating with the board; if there was something on the screen, it gets erased as the upload starts.  This is the same behavior that occurs when I'm using the Arduino IDE.  Its like there's something missing as the end of the upload to tell the MicroView to start running the program.  Just a guess.

FWIW, output from Micro Build:
Compiling 'Project1' for 'Arduino Uno'
Binary sketch size: 3,208 bytes (used 10% of a 32,256 byte maximum) (0.98 secs)
Minimum Memory Usage: 595 bytes (29% of a 2048 byte maximum)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM4'
Done uploading

I'd be more than happy to purchase Visual Micro if we can get this resolved, as I find the Arduino IDE is just awful for any kind of significant development effort.

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Reply #3 - Mar 7th, 2015 at 5:05pm
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Hi,

Thanks for the info. You don't need to buy Visual Micro the free version does all but a few things and support is currently free for all.

The confusing thing about this is that you are just using an Arduino Uno which is the most commonly used board and one that has worked with visual micro almost since time began.

For upload we run the avrdude.exe that is installed below the arduino ide folder. The arduino ide uses the same exe to run the upload (avrdude it an atmel command line program).

So other than a few milliseconds of timing we should get the same results as the arduino ide.

The only area that could possibly be different would be if the compiler is resolving some library sources from a different location to the arduino ide.

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If you compile with visual micro in release mode is the final program size reported in the output window the same as is produced in the arduino ide?

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In the arduino ide, please switch on file>preferences>compiler and uplaod verbose then re-start the ide and make a full compile
In Visual Micro switch on "tools>visual micro>compiler verbose", then click "Build>clean solution", then compile and upload.

Please email the two outputs from 2) above to info [at] visualmicro.com

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Reply #4 - Mar 7th, 2015 at 7:02pm
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Well, I'm an idiot.  Turns out, I had forgot to copy the two lines of code that are required before drawing to the device:

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uView.begin();
uView.clear(PAGE);
// start drawing...


Everything works fine now.  Really appreciate your help with this though.  And nice job with VisualMicro.  I know creating Visual Studio plug-ins can be a nightmare.
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Reply #5 - Mar 7th, 2015 at 7:14pm
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Good news. Thanks
  
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