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<div dir="auto">You're better off ditching the ino (putting in a stub), and working all in cpp files. I do this too with Arduino. There was a trick to stop Workbench from having that lagging view of the filesystem, but I don't remember what it was.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The debugging with rhe Particle JTAG has been super slow since the Argon /Boron generation of their products that changed cpu to use Nordic's nrf52 line. The previous generation used ST ARM chips and was a little easier/nicer to debug using Eclipse and an ST jtag. I never figured out how to speed up debugging before my involved with the project ended. Nordic chips have decent debugging support via a Segger built in to the Nordic dev kit, im not sure why they didn't go that way as a supported debugging method.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir='auto'><br></div>
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<div dir="auto">On May 13, 2021 9:31:06 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto">The following is not meant to be criticism of VS Code or Particle or </div>
<div dir="auto">Microsoft, just information about their tool chain in its current state </div>
<div dir="auto">and the corner cases I seem to be unlucky enough to flush out.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Poking around docs and I can't seem to find the answer to this </div>
<div dir="auto">question: How to disable the VS Code editor and tell it I'm using an </div>
<div dir="auto">external editor? I realize VS Code is a code editor and this question </div>
<div dir="auto">may be another in a long line of benchmarks for heresy. I don't seem </div>
<div dir="auto">to be able to avoid heresy.</div>
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<div dir="auto">This feature is straight forward with the Arduino IDE and I'm hoping </div>
<div dir="auto">it's present in VS Code to help me escape from the hopeless confused </div>
<div dir="auto">state Code (or Particle Workbench?) gets into with mutated files. I'm </div>
<div dir="auto">seeing a state where it decides I shouldn't really be using vim and so I </div>
<div dir="auto">can't edit the source from inside Code or outside and have it reflected </div>
<div dir="auto">sanely in the next build. If I could just find the right button in </div>
<div dir="auto">files/prefs/settings/Text Editor or the right json entry or something. </div>
<div dir="auto">But my deeper issue is that even "clean" operations with Particle </div>
<div dir="auto">workbench don't keep Code from seeing the wrong source files in some </div>
<div dir="auto">cases. The fact that it doesn't see a clear dependency between .ino and </div>
<div dir="auto">generated .cpp file (i.e. mutating the former should force recreation of </div>
<div dir="auto">the latter. And how is it possible a clean doesn't remove the .cpp??? D </div>
<div dir="auto">U H) All this tells me I need Maxwell's silver hammer. So far I've tried </div>
<div dir="auto">particle clean local, manual deletion of the .cpp, reset intellisense </div>
<div dir="auto">database, and reset editor history. Some combination of these has </div>
<div dir="auto">rescued me but what I really need is a way to say "I'll handle the </div>
<div dir="auto">source mutations myself" so I can more easily edit a bunch of files at </div>
<div dir="auto">once and just use Code for the build and debug sessions for where I'm at </div>
<div dir="auto">with this stuff. Can you tell I still haven't adapted to graphical </div>
<div dir="auto">interfaces? But I will get my mind right with VS Code, I'm just in a </div>
<div dir="auto">hurry at the moment.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Also, if there is anybody on the list with experience using the Particle </div>
<div dir="auto">JTAG debugger with an Argon using Particle Workbench I'd love to get </div>
<div dir="auto">some of your consulting time for a faster bootstrap and am happy to pay </div>
<div dir="auto">for it.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks,</div>
<div dir="auto">Pete</div>
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<div dir="auto">PS This is what it is: my opinion. I love VS Code and don't despise or </div>
<div dir="auto">hate Microsoft anymore. That started when the kid named Bill was kissing </div>
<div dir="auto">MITS' ass and moving down the street from them while gloating about his </div>
<div dir="auto">shitty BASIC implementation and then making his customers his unwitting </div>
<div dir="auto">alpha and beta testers for decades and duping and screwing this and that </div>
<div dir="auto">biz partner. I used to have visions of latter day incendiary barrel </div>
<div dir="auto">bombs dropping on Redmond after getting the campus evacuated to burn all </div>
<div dir="auto">the source code and stop the torture of Windows users. But their attempt </div>
<div dir="auto">to embrace and extend open source is going to enable any hidden </div>
<div dir="auto">imperialist plans to find the same sort of fate as US biz _____ enjoyed </div>
<div dir="auto">with their attempt at a conquest of China. I wonder if Paul or somebody </div>
<div dir="auto">else wrote that BASIC? I don't know but don't really care that much. </div>
<div dir="auto">Yes, I am an ambulatory fossil, but one who knows something about system </div>
<div dir="auto">software and the difference between juvenile hobby code and commercial </div>
<div dir="auto">code that respects accumulated wisdom.</div>
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