I have just started my first program. All going well until I used the 'for' command.
It did not turn orange or get recognized ?
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
The command colouring in the IDE is notoriously flakey. The colour of the text makes no difference to the editor or the compiler.
Advice : ignore the colour or lack of it.
Does the code compile and does the for loop work ?
Actually, it was never intended that for be colored orange:
#FUNCTIONS COLOR #D35400 - ORANGE KEYWORD1
#FUNCTIONS COLOR #D35400 - ORANGE KEYWORD2
#STRUCTURE COLORS #728E00 - GREEN KEYWORD3
for KEYWORD3 For RESERVED_WORD
It's a subtle color difference, but if you look closely you will see that for does indeed have a different color from regular text.
I'm not aware of any flakeyness to keyword coloring in the Arduino IDE but certainly it's a crude system since there's no attempt to use context of the code so you get coloration for keywords from libraries that you aren't even using in the sketch.
Birdyspecial:
Any ideas?
Please read this:-
How to use this forum and then post your code in the way it tells you to.
What Grumpy_Mike says - read the instructions to see how to post your code in a [CODE] block fso we can see it properly. Don't just post it inline with your reply - that can mess up some formatting that may bear on your problem.
In the meantime, try deleting the line(s) your problem is on, and retyping it from scratch.