can't access the configuration.h tab

Do I need the tab or am I supposed to open this file in some other program to edit it?
I got to the step where I'm supposed to open the fived_gcode_interpreter file in the arduino software but it says in the wiki that I'm supposed to see a tab called configuration.h there is no tab for this nor is there one for the original file before I copied it. I tried opening the file with notepad but it's very dense with code and hard to read this way. Is there something I'm missing or not seeing here? I may try uploading this as is and see what happens, it beats sitting there wondering about it.

Ah, yuck, notepad. Notepad isn't showing the end of line characters.

Probably what happened there is there is a configuration.h.dist, which is the generic file. You have to rename it to configuration.h; the .dist is to keep it from over-writing your personal configuration when you upgrade to a newer version of the firmware.

Install something like ConText or any decent text editor and it will be able to work with linux style plain text, which uses a different character to indicate newlines.

While your at it, disabled the 'hide extensions for known file types' feature in windows, it can make things really confusing.

Presumably all you need to do to get it appear on a tab in the Arduino ide is to open it in the file open menu. You shouldn't need an external editor.

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it should be a tab further to the right, out of window. make the window larger or click on the arrow on the topright.

I tried extending the window to the right all the way by turning my screen resolution super high. It wouldn't let me drag the window open more any other way. Problem is, there is no configuration.h.dist tab nor is there a configuration.h tab.


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/2010 09:42AM by jkelso.

try putting the firmware in your arduino folder amongst the other examples, then opening it through file -> examples instead of file -> open

When I try to verify this file I get this message:

I put the folder in the arduino examples folder and nothing changed

Look in the directory (folder) and see if a "configuration.h" file exists. If it does not then close the Arduino software, COPY configuration.h.dist to configuration.h and then double click on the FiveD_GCode_Interpreter file to restart the Arduino software for the project.

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That didn't change anything

Thank you Andrew Smith. I disabled the hide known file extensions and could then see that the configuration.h file was renamed to configuration.h.h so I deleted the last .h and now I can see the tab. Right when I was starting to get grouchy again.

Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/2010 11:14AM by jkelso.