Allow the serial monitor to stay opened during upload, disabling it

[avishorp]

Currently, the serial monitor window closes when starting program uploading. I find this behavior very annoying since the monitor window has to be opened over and over again after each upload. The attached patch fixes this issue. When upload starts, the window gets disabled. When the upload process ends the window gets re-enabled and become operational immediately (if it is visible). The user can also now open the serial monitor window while uploading is in progress.

[tchilton]

Or alternately, the IDE should re-open the serial monitor automatically when the build has completed. If the developer is monitoring the serial, they probably care whats coming out of it, so manually clicking to re-open is not great usability and just slows things down.

[avishorp]

I think that enabling/disabling is cleaner in the UI respect.

[matthijskooijman]

I agree that this is the cleanest way to implement this feature.

I had a look at this code, it looks good to me. I haven't actually tested it, though.

@cmaglie, any plans to merge this?
@avishorp, did you see if the same patch applies to the 1.5.x branch? If @cmaglie agrees that this is the best approach, perhaps you could prepare a pullreq for 1.5.x as well?

[avishorp]

No problem, I'll prepare a pull request when it is approved.

[andreujuanc]

Oh! Great!! Sorry i didnt see this thread before posting. It was LATE (3am) or so.

Let me know if I can help with implementation. I'll download code at night.

Regards,

[matthijskooijman]

@andreujuanc, Testing the code in this pullrequest and providing feedback would help. Thanks!

[andreujuanc]

Guys, I cant clone it. Downloading data takes lots of time and then suddenly fails (After almost an hour downloading).

Downloading speed average is about 200KB/s. Sometimes goes to 600 and then stays below 100 for someminutes then goes again to more or less 200KB/s.

Tried downloading the ZIP file and it takes even longer, canceled cos cant wait if it goes at 20KB/s.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[matthijskooijman]

Hmm, sounds like you have a bad connection? Perhaps contacting github support would help? Not sure how to get at the source, if not through github...

[andreujuanc]

Got it with SSH :S and its not my internet/PC fault. Whatever.

Now i got the project I had no idea that i have to do ALL OF THIS: https://code.google.com/p/arduino/wiki/BuildingArduino just to compile arduino. Any other faster way? Only to build and debug the IDE.

Can I somehow create a netbeans project and just debbug the IDE?
PS: Im not an active java programmer.

[matthijskooijman]

I'm not aware of any faster ways to build. The official repo does not have a Netbeans project and I don't expect anyone else to have published one. Also, there is some post-processing and unpacking of toolchain tarballs that needs to happen, so I'm not sure if Netbeans is up for that.

If you're not otherwise interested in IDE development, feel free to just leave it at this - this pullrequest will move forward even without your test results.

[andreujuanc]

Just wanted to check the IDE without any other thing if necesary.
And yea I know, im not doing this to test the code since I cant even compile it.. And it takes ages to download.

Might not test it.

[ArduinoBot]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[ffissore]

Superseded by #2180