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Cannot select/copy the path to preferences.txt in Arduino IDE Preferences window #2

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Arduino IDE
2. Open Arduino->Preferences (OS X) or File->Preferences (Win)
3. Try to select path to preferences.txt at bottom of window - not possible

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Arduino 12 on Win, Mac, Arduino 13 from SVN sources on Win, Mac

Please provide any additional information below.

It would be great to be able to select the preference path to paste into
Explorer/Terminal/... Since you cannot modify preferences.txt while Arduino
is running, users have to manually write down the path or remember it (it's
long and uncommon) to browse to the file after closing the IDE. Allowing
users to place copy the path onto the clipboard would be much nicer.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bjoern.h...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2009 at 4:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Good point.  This should be fixed in Processing and ported: 
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?
id=1279

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 7:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 8:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 8:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
In Arduino 0018, the path to the preferences file is a link which will open the 
containing folder.  Then the 
preferences file can be easily located once you quit Arduino.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2009 at 4:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Doesn't work if you are on a Linux-system not using Gnome (KDE xfce ...)

You would have to edit the preferences (swap kde-open for gnome-open) to make 
the fix
for the preferences to work.
But I don't think this should be fixed (for linux) the way it is now. The 
orginal
idea (copy to clipboard) is the superior solution to using a platform-specific
launcher-app.

Eberhard

Original comment by e.fa...@wayoda.org on 10 Jan 2010 at 10:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
And just to prove again, that java/swing is a great GUI language  here is the 
patch
Eberhard

Original comment by e.fa...@wayoda.org on 10 Jan 2010 at 11:29

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