About support to share files

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Hi, guys,you are doing great work indeed.

There is a advice on arduino IDE.

Maybe you have received so many repeat advice on this : support multi directory or share same files among multi project.

Yes, I gave the same suggestion too , now :slight_smile:

I'm trying to build a laserTag system refer to MilesTag, I divide the functions into 3 blocks: Master / Sender(shot) / Receiver , so,there must exist shared files :).
It is really chaos during development.

Now, I do like this:
LaserTag/Master
LaserTag/Sender
LaserTag/Receiver
LaserTag/Share
all shared file exist in LaserTag/Share,and they exist in other directory too, every time they changed in Master/Sender/Receiver, they will be copied back to Share directory,and then refresh to all other dirs(Master,Sender,Receiver), I write a simple .bat in LaserTag/Share to exec refresh action.

But , it relies on manual work, if you forget to exec the whole cycle,something will be wrong later...

So,would you please support file sharing, or, provide a tool to keep the files refresh automatically?

It is not so difficult to refresh files among multi dirs,
BUT,I don't know if arduino can detect the file change in time.

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This is precisely what libraries are for. Just put all the code that needs to be shared in libraries and then include those libraries in your sketch.

See https://www.arduino.cc/en/Hacking/libraryTutorial

3

Arduino CREATE EDITOR has the ability to share a single URL which will always lead back to the updated code to allow a single version of a sketch to be used by many.