I cant able to edit any sketch

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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i cant able to edit any sketch , iam using windows 7 version and i downloaded ide for windows 7 . IDE version 1.8.16 , i have tried uninstalling and installing the application several times

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You cannot edit "Installed examples" as they are read only.
Open and Save As to another location.

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Hi mrburnette, i have tried with new sketch , even with new sketch i am not able to edit or write

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Under File > Preferences verify that "Use external editor" is not checked.

You can edit the examples, but cannot save the altered code unless you use "save as".

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Is the edit window grayed out? Maybe you set the preferences to external editor? If so, uncheck the use external editor box in File, Preferences.

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Hi groundFungus, yes! it worked . thanks a lot :grinning: Happy coding

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Well ... that would be pretty useless then as compile forces a "save."

But I'll take the wet-noodle lashing as pastadoes not scare me.

Ray

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Actually it will compile without saving. I often will bring up some example code like BlinkWithoutDelay so that I can quickly overwriting it with some code from a forum question that I want to test compile. Saves the trouble of having to create a new sketch then later delete it.