Why are the deprecated syntax/methods not listed anywhere on the Arduino References section? I recently bought a Duemilanove (328) and was trying to use some code I found at the Arduino Playground that used the method printByte(b). Kept getting an error when I tried to compile/upload. Searching for printByte on the main Arduino page just told about the command. NOT that it is discontinued/deprecated and what method should be used in place of it. Couldn't find it on this forum either. Actually, the fact that I COULD find it in a search implied to me that it was still good. This forum contained one post that implied that it might be discontinued.
For those of us like me that are complete NOOBs at this and trying to teach ourselves, it is simply too frustrating to have missing pieces of information like this!
Any chance of someone putting together a deprecated list with the correct work-arounds?
Yet another thing about the documentation that needs to be fixed.
The Playground is a public wiki. If you see an obsolete piece, feel free to delete or modify it.
Mikal
Oh. Sorry. Wasn't trying to be a troublemaker. Just was pointing out what I found to be the biggest problem I am having as a complete beginner:
No definitive place to go to read HOW to get the code to do certain things.
Which leads to you scouring the net for other projects that are sort of like what you want to do...
But... then they no longer work because something has been changed, but there is no definitive place to see what those changes are and how to do them now...
Anyway, I love the hardware and the concept of this tool, just need a bit more definition for what works....