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Present boards in alphabetical order in "Board manager" #7665
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Why don't you make a pull request with an updated version of |
@mats-nk I have a problem with searching any long list. My solution was to add and use the --filter option on boards.txt.py. This option will also place the boards in the order they appear in the filter file. So you can dump a list of the boards with:
arrange and delete boards as needed. This would also allow you to group boards in any order. Then:
I don't remember how I positioned the generic boards. They are special and always added even if you leave them out of the |
@mats-nk Well, I just got back to my system and looked at this again. |
Neat that was a nice way, I'm not a python guy so I didn¨t see that one in the Then I would suggest that the Because I don't believe that the common person will build their own |
And a thought, is it possible to make |
@mhightower83 thx for that info, I have never heard of favorites.txt and searching for it was not easy, but I found: https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq/a05-board-generator.html But that doc needs some proof reading, like My guess is: |
So I tried the above suggestions with
And it works, I get the subset that I specified in favorites.txt + "Generic ESP8285 Module", but the sorting I had to do manually in I just specified :
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Sorting could be automated |
@d-a-v Sorting would be highly appreciated from me. Is it hard to split out the board definitions in a separate file, like boards.def, because then boards.txt.py could be used with the AVR MCU and other MCUs. |
@mhightower83 it seems the order given by
(it should also work under windows, I just discovered |
As I have said earlier, I think it would be appreciated to have the boards sorted in alphabetical order in the release, NOT something that you have to do manually after finding something in the doc and have installed python. Lets have the average user in focus. And thanks, I didn't know that And YES the documentation should be proof read and updated. |
#7670 is a proposal for automating board sorting, leaving generic boards always first. Is that OK ? |
Basic Infos
Platform
Settings in IDE
"Board manager"
Problem Description
I have found it hard to always scan the list of boards in the board manager for the board I'm currently working with since they are not in alphabetical order.
So I split the "Arduino/tools/boards.txt.py" into one file per board and then the start and end info into separate files.
boards.zip contains all the "one file per board".
boards.zip
build.txt ->build.bat builds a new version of boards.txt.py with the boards in alphabetical order.
build.txt
I would appreciate if the boards could be presented in an alphabetical order highly.
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