I am getting this message on about 30% of my sketches. It’s not bad now as these are beginner sketches that I don’t mind recreating. I don’t want this to continue though since it appears the sketches are no longer available.
What am I doing wrong?
The message is very clear. A name must be basic ASCII with NO spaces. What is your file name? chasing lights WITH a space between chasing and lights. Rename to chasingLights and it will work.
Thank you- I am so new to coding I did not know ASCII protocol.
Appreciate the help beekeeper!
ASCII isn't a protocol. It is a table with the numeric value of each character. It is a standard that first uses only 127 possible 'characters'. Long time a go (1963) used for TELEX. It is by default the standard for coding text.
I appreciate the knowledge. I am so new to this that basic stuff is foreign to me. Thanks again!
There are some subtleties about sketch filenames that you should take note of
- sketches must be in a folder of exactly the same name as the sketch
*if you put more than one .ino file in a sketch folder then the one with the same name as the folder is regarded as the main sketch and other .ino files will appear as extra tabs in the IDE - IDE v1 will allow you to save a sketch with spaces in its name but will automatically replace the spaces with underscores and you will get a message telling you so
- IDE v2 will save a sketch with spaces in its name and use that name quite happily but such a sketch will cause the problem reported in this topic
As a result of the above you need to be careful with the names of sketches when using IDE v1 and IDE v2 in a mixed environment or when creating or copy sketches outside of the IDE
Appreciate the thorough response! It did automatically use underscoring but I must have re-typed at some point.
Awesome group here!
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