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Document Tools menu plugin ability. #116

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What change would like to see?
I would like to see support for plugins or Addins for the IDE. Much like VS
and or Sharpdevelop have

Why?
With the possibility of having plugins the community could extend the IDE
the way they want without having to fork it...

Would this cause any incompatibilities with previous versions?  If so, how
can these be mitigated?
I dont think that many incompatibilities would arise.. the main 'problem'
would be that arduino would get further away from the processing ide.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mamage...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2009 at 9:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I think since the goal of the simple look of the Arduino IDE is because it's 
meant
for sketching, a simple scratch pad to get lights flashing or some text on the
screen. Unlike AVRStudio or Visual Studio where I expect to place breakpoints 
and
peak into local variables and such for more complex projects.

Thus I don't think Arduino users would seek more extensions, and those who 
would find
these extensions useful should switch to another IDE anyways.

I think moving away from the Processing IDE is a good thing though.

Original comment by frank.zhao.main@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2009 at 8:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
There's actually a plug-in system that's come over from Processing: the ability 
to write custom entries for the Tools menu.  We've just never documented it.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2011 at 10:12