[evolved] library Keyboard-emulator for german keyboard-layout (old title: "printing" characters that have a multibyte representation to a keyboard-emulator does not work like write)

[StefanL38]

@johnwasser

It's not clear why it didn't find the library. Did you use Sketch -> Include Library -> Add .ZIP Library...? or did you copy the library folder in manually?

I tried both. In both cases no success.

@johnwasser

I think opening Tools -> Manage Libraries... will cause it to re-index your library files.

Does this mean the Arduino-IDE builds some kind of internal index that needs to be called again after installing a ZIP-library?

I never needed to do this with other ZIP-libraries.

I started a separated thread about this problem and describe there some steps what I tried. Still trying some more things...

How can a library.properties-file cause an error no such file or directory?

Hi Everybody, in the meantime I narrowed down the problem to be the library.properties-file. If I delete the file library.properties from the library-folder it compiles successfully. For historical reasons I keep the postings below. The original titel of this thread was: Compiler-messages: what could cause not finding any candidate If you want to follow the actual state you can jump down to post #11 just now I tried the new KeyboardUTF8-library from @johnwasser I'm pretty sure that I in…

best regards Stefan