Serial Monitor: add ability to send bytes without clicking send

[EmbeddedMan]

It would be a very nice feature (that even Arduino serial monitor doesn't have) to allow the user to type a single character and send that right off to the board, rather than wait for the user to also click Send.

There should be a way to choose which behavior mode you want to use.

[gholdys]

Any idea how should we control this behaviour from the UI? Some checkbox, a toggle-button? I can't think of any good UI solution right now.

[EmbeddedMan]

Well, I think it has to be mutually exclusive with the CR and LF buttons. For example, here are the possible modes I can see: Press send, with CR and LF Press send, with CR Press send, with LF Press send Don't press send We already have the first four. The key is that you will never have the case where you want to send each byte as you type (i.e. "don't press send") but have the serial monitor add a CR or LF after each byte. So maybe there could be another button, just like CR and LF, but that says "Use Send". This button will be grayed out (not pressable) until both CR and LF are unpressed. At that point, the "Use Send" button will become active. This is just a quick guess at how to do it. Another way would be a checkbox that says "Use Send", and the checkbox only becomes active when both CR and LF are unpressed. Honestly, I think it would be easier to understand if CR and LF were checkboxes as well.

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Grzegorz Hołdys ***@***.***> wrote: Any idea how should we control this behaviour from the UI? Some checkbox, a toggle-button? I can't think of any good UI solution right now. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAbeCGjP-Pdn6wD-uXAl-Y-nSfugRcS9ks5rfJxygaJpZM4MI4k9> .

[gholdys]

OK and should there be an "echo" for the single-byte mode? Should the characters that the user types in appear in the messages view below? Should they disappear immediately from the input field or should they stay there?

[EmbeddedMan]

Ahh, echo should be another another check box entirely! Good catch. The echo check box should be available at all times to check or uncheck. If it is checked, then everything you type in the 'send' text field will also be printed to the output window. (either when you click Send, if "Use Send" is checked, or as you type, if it is not. If the echo checkbox is unchecked, then none of what you type gets put into the output text box.

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Grzegorz Hołdys ***@***.***> wrote: OK and should there be an "echo" for the single-byte mode? Should the characters that the user types in appear in the messages view below? Should they disappear immediately from the input field or should they stay there? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAbeCEprDuS7CjSx8fPNMQbetLyTZy2tks5rfKINgaJpZM4MI4k9> .