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Error drawing authors
Oct 5th, 2015 at 6:26am
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Hi,
when I do a rescan when in Visual Micro Explorer or a Refresh when on the Manage Libraries tab I get a message box pop up twice with 'Error drawing authors' and an OK button.

What is wrong?

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Re: Error drawing authors
Reply #1 - Oct 5th, 2015 at 3:36pm
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Hi,

Thanks for the post. I'm not sure what would cause that. We should be seeing exactly the same library list so the issue should be the same for me.

Which tab is selected when you click re-scan?
Which Visual Studio Ide are you using?
Which Arduino Ide version are you using?

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Reply #2 - Oct 5th, 2015 at 4:28pm
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Hi,
I have Manage Libraries tab selected. 
Version of Arduino: 1.6
Version of Visual Micro - latest one on the downloads.
Using Visual Studio 2015
  
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Reply #3 - Oct 5th, 2015 at 4:31pm
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Thanks for the info.

There have been some big changes in the arduino 1.6 range

What is the exact version shown in the title bar of the ide?

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Reply #4 - Oct 5th, 2015 at 7:14pm
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Arduino 1.6
If it really is to do with Authors then expanding the Authors tree the first entry is blank i.e.

Authors (124)
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+ - Adafruit (114)
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+ - Adafruit (3)
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Reply #5 - Oct 5th, 2015 at 7:19pm
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Thanks for the info.

The latest release of Arduino should show 1.6.5 so it might be that your older version of Arduino has some early versions of the new library format specification which arduino have matured since 1.6.0
  
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Reply #6 - Oct 6th, 2015 at 5:05am
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Hi,
I just checked and my Arduino is 1.6.5-r5 - 2015.08.28.
To make sure there wasn't something odd I re-downloaded and re-installed. The IDE title bar still shows Arduino 1.6 and a rescan still shows the authors error message.
  
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Reply #7 - Oct 6th, 2015 at 5:28am
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Hi,
ok I found the problem with the Authors message.
I had a library with the library.properties file with a blank entry for author, i.e.
author=

It would be useful if vm either ignored this or better still flagged it up as a library with an empty author string.

I still only have Arduino 1.6 in the Ide combo box though...
  
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Reply #8 - Oct 6th, 2015 at 10:16am
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Hi,

Thanks I will look at the empty authors string.

For you information...

Arduino have never produced a 1.6 Ide, they produce only 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3 etc
  
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Reply #9 - Oct 7th, 2015 at 5:01am
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Hi,
here is what is shown on my version of Visual Studio - no options for point releases.

  

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Reply #10 - Oct 7th, 2015 at 10:28am
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Okay that's just the visual micro name for the type of ide. The Arduino ide version number is shown in the title bar of the Arduino Ide after running arduino.exe

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