Hello,

I've been using VM for the last months with no problems at all, but today something strange happened.
For any apparent reason, VM can't find the IDElocation anymore. I didn't updated or changed anything special for this to happen. The only thing that i have done was installing an Black Theme on Arduino IDE (that requires changing preferences.txt  and the themes folder) and an extension on VS called Color Theme Editor.

Things that i've tried for fixing the problem:
Uninstalling the VS theme extension
Reversed the changes related to the Arduino Black Theme
Uninstalled and reinstalled the VM extension on VS
Downloaded the Arduino zip version and tried to point to it location, instead of the main one.

None of this things helped.

If anyone have a glimpse on how to fix this, i would appreciate.

Need more information to help fixing this problem? let me know which one.

Arduino Version - 1.8.10
VS Version - 2019
VM Version - 1912.28.2
OS Version - Windows 10

Best of regards,
Alexandre.

Please give more info or show picture of your ide and the vmicro menu.

In Visual Micro there is an IDE Locations window available on the vMicro>General menu. It's important to say what path is entered into that window for the Arduino 1.6-1.8 menu and also to say where your arduino ide (arduino.exe) is locatated.

If you have an open project then also state what IDE and Board you have selected on the vMicro menu.

Thanks

Thanks, there are not any other reports of this and it would be very serious for visual micro to have an issue in this area.

I can try to guess for a solution:-

1)
Normally windows is not case sensitive but it can be. I notice the "c" is lower case in Visual Micro. Can you please paste the folder name from windows explorer into the IDE Location window just to be sure everything matches?

2)
Do you have some kind of permissions issue preventing Visual Micro from accessing the Arduino IDE. try running VS as admin?

3)
Please post a screen shot of the entire IDE.

Thanks

Hello, 

There is any way of using the VM without an external IDE? Is this what the option "Visual Micro (No IDE)" on the VM IDE dropdown does? 
if so, i think found a error that's maybe can help us to figure out the problem.

When i select the option, i get the following message:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NpJ8FySyUqPa7SfS7

Is this the correct behaviour? Maybe is this that is causing the problem when location the Arduino IDE, but the error just appear when i don't have any IDE.

Thanks

Hello, 

The only link in the Arduino IDE is the following:
https://www.adafruit.com/package_adafruit_index.json
(picture: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JyMV3Ajm6xY5CV9Q6)

And, in VM, i have no link inserted in the "Optional additional boards"(Both when "Arduino 1.6/1.8" and "Visual Micro (no IDE)")
(picture: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bm6jDWhQs8kyzn8C6)

Just to point out, i don't have changed those fields, both on Arduino IDE and on VM, recently, so it would be very strange if this is causing the problem.

Thanks

Ohh, that worked  !! 

Just changed the name, reopened the Arduino IDE and then the VS. Didn't had to do nothing in the VM. 

I wonder why this problem appeared in the first place... As I already said, the environment was working just fine and i don't had changed anything special. Damn software elves

Thanks for your help. Now i can go back to the VM environment... the Arduino IDE was killing me. 


Best of regards.
Alexandre

Of course, the link to access it is the following:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1REtltxjLVkkmW8p0lbAwrm9oLbbOOKbL?usp=sha...

if you discover the root of the problem or need more info to help, just let me know.

Thanks