Dear Arduino Team
Congratulation to the new release. I finally changed to IDE 2.
There is one think I wished to have. A seperate Window for the Serial Moitor.
It is not conviniant to have the serial monitor below the Sketch. It takes too much space and if a Serial.print is continiously running it is very difficult to view.
In the old Version of the IDE it was much better.
I watched Dronebot video about the new IDE, they also mentioned this.
Thank you for considering.
This has been brought up a few times and I hope that it will be acted upon. In earlier versions of IDE 2.0 you used to be able to click on the Serial monitor tab and drag it to the right of the screen to dock the Serial monitor there instead of at the bottom of the screen but I have just tried that with rc9.2 and it appears that it is now broken or that I am trying to do it the wrong way
On the whole I prefer the separate Serial monitor of the classic IDE and at the moment if I want something like this with 2.0 I use a separate terminal emulator such as Coolterm but it is not so convenient as having it integrated with the IDE
See Disable widget dragging/splitting by msujew · Pull Request #940 · arduino/arduino-ide · GitHub
Can we expect this facility to be reinstated at some time, or even better, the facility to use a separate Serial Monitor window ?
See Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (towards the bottom).
It is in the works for sometime in the future.
That's nice, because I use the Serial Monitor window on a separate monitor. TBH, I haven't looked at 2.0 yet, and now I know I won't be going there for a while.
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From the user's perspective (I don't know about the technical side), that pull request removed two distinct features:
- The "Flexible Window Layout" feature that allowed you to drag Serial Monitor and other views/widgets to arbitrary panels.
- The "split editor" that allowed having multiple editor views side by side.
Users have requested the restoration of the split editor, which is tracked here:
I am not aware of any formal requests for the "Flexible Window Layout" capability to be restored.
This is definitely planned, as the development team lead stated in the issue kindly linked by Willem43. I'll add the quote here for convenience:
it's definitely in our roadmap and at the top of the list.
We are giving maximum priorities to bugs that compromise the standard usage, next will come performance and UX improvements, like this issue with the monitor. We already designed the new one that is gonna be a separate window like the serial plotter.