Hi everybody,
does anybody know if there is planned to add the arduino-Core for the AI-Thinker Ai-WB2-32S-Kit ?
Ai Thinker is known for developing wireless connectivity modules, such as GPS modules and antennas, which...
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Ai-WB2-32S-Kit is a development board based on the Ai-WB2-32S module. This module is equipped with a BL602 chip as the core processor and supports Wi-Fi&BT. It can be widely used in the Internet of Things(IoT), mobile devices, wearable electronic...
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best regards Stefan
Hi @StefanL38 . This 3rd party boards platform supports the Bouffalo Lab BL602:
I think you would add this URL to the list in:
V1.8: Preferences -> Additional Boards Manager URLs:
https://github.com/pine64/ArduinoCore-bouffalo/blob/main/package.json
I don't know where the URL list is in V2.0.
It is at the same place as in Arduino IDE 1.x.
Gah! I didn't notice that V2.0.2 had a scroll bar in the Preferences dialog. Sure enough, when I scroll down I find the URL list. I knew the field was somewhere but I was so used to the V1.8.19 showing everything that I didn't think to scroll.
Sorry about that.
No worries. It seems like maybe the scrollbar discoverability needs to be improved because there have been one or two other reports of this.
The lack of such a scrolling capability in the Arduino IDE 1.x dialog was actually the source of quite a few problems over the years because those with small displays found the bottom of the dialog was off-screen and inaccessible. The Arduino IDE developers made a compromise by determining a minimum display size that would be supported and then arranging the preferences to take up the absolute minimal possible vertical space in order to fit within those dimensions.
I have now submitted a formal report about this:
opened 11:04AM - 15 Dec 22 UTC
topic: code
type: imperfection
### Describe the problem
The dimensions of the "**Preferences**" dialog is li… mited by the Arduino IDE window dimensions.
If the window dimensions are small, the contents of the dialog may not fit within the available space. In this case, the dialog is scrollable, which allows the user to access the settings that fall outside the visible area of the dialog.
🐛 The ability to scroll the dialog is difficult for the user to discover. These users are given the impression that some preferences are missing from the dialog due to a bug in Arduino IDE.
### To reproduce
1. Resize the Arduino IDE window to the minimum vertical size.
1. Select **File > Preferences** from the Arduino IDE menus.
The preferences farthest down in the dialog are not visible.
1. Move the mouse pointer to an area of the screen not over the dialog:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8572152/207843298-6ed8d0ab-6494-4c38-9927-33b56fc80578.png)
🐛 There is no indication at all that the dialog is scrollable:
1. Hover the mouse pointer over the dialog, but not over the scrollbar area:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8572152/207843329-0534b2e4-3849-43df-9de3-6cd28cbcf27e.png)
🐛 A scrollbar appears, but the non-standard design causes the nature of the UI element to be non-obvious to the average user:
- Rounded "thumb"
- Thumb is significantly less than standard width
- No "trough"
- Scrollbar overlaps the horizontal rule of the tab bar
- There is no spacing between the right side of the "**BROWSE**" button and the scrollbar
1. Hover the mouse pointer over the the scrollbar area of the dialog:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8572152/207843352-e522e201-11fa-4a21-9cb2-dc432736bc72.png)
🙂 The nature of the UI element is now fairly obvious to the average user:
- There is a trough
- The scrollbar has a standard width
### Expected behavior
It is obvious to the user when a dialog is scrollable.
### Arduino IDE version
7c86f1f
### Operating system
Windows
### Operating system version
10
### Additional context
Originally reported at https://forum.arduino.cc/t/missing-additional-board-manager-urls-field-in-preferences/1055935/1
Additional reports:
- https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-core-available-for-the-ai-thinker-bl602/1064372/5
- https://forum.arduino.cc/t/missing-additional-board-manager-urls-field-in-preferences/1055935/7
- https://forum.arduino.cc/t/missing-additional-board-manager-urls-field-in-preferences/1055935/19
- https://forum.arduino.cc/t/what-id-have-hoped-for-in-2-x/1163071/7
### Issue checklist
- [X] I searched for previous reports in [the issue tracker](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues?q=)
- [X] I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest [nightly build](https://www.arduino.cc/en/software#nightly-builds)
- [X] My report contains all necessary details
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June 13, 2023, 11:06am
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