Arduino IDE versus Processing IDE

Projects Programming
1

I have both the Arduino IDE and the Processing IDE running on my Windows7 computer. There is one thing I would like to find out if anyone else has hit and see if there is a way to work around it.

When I double-click an *.pde file, I may get the wrong IDE starting up to open the file. Both IDEs use *.pde for the source file. Does anyone have a decent solution for this (other that starting the IDE first)?

Also, when I close one IDE (Arduino) and open the other (Processing or vice versa), I sometimes end up with the sketch folder pointing to that other IDE. It seems that somewhere in Windows, there is a common registry key (or *.ini specification) that gets updated by both IDEs for the same thing. Is there any way around this?

2

The extension for sketches for the Arduino is being changed to .ino, in the next major release. Meanwhile, there isn't much you can do, except use the File + Open menu in the IDE, instead of double clicking on a .pde file.

3

Thanks for the feedback.