the Serial Monitor

Community Suggestions for the Arduino Project
1

I like to suggest that a feature be added to Serial Monitor to make it possible to write data to a file, or at least, allow selection and copy in that window so that data can be pasted to another window or app.

thanks

2

Can't you highlight the text (CTRL-A), then Copy (CTRL-C) and Paste (CTRL-V)? I recall that used to work.

3

rmcd:
I like to suggest that a feature be added to Serial Monitor to make it possible to write data to a file

We do have an existing feature request for this in the tracker:

rmcd:
allow selection and copy in that window so that data can be pasted to another window or app.

You should definitely be able to do this already by following CrossRoads's instructions. If you're looking for a button to do that, there is a proposal to add one here:

or if you're expecting the standardized right click edit menu, that has been proposed as an alternative to the button here:

4

Thank you for replying so quickly.

I did try Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-C (to copy) and then went to Excel and did Ctrl-V (to paste) but it pasted only the first number from the list of 47 numbers in Serial Monitor.

I'm using version 1.8.5 of the IDE

FYI...the numbers go out on the serial port this way:

Serial.begin(19200);

this_char = &freq_string[0] ;
do
{
Serial.write ( *this_char ++ ) ;
}
while (*this_char != 0 ) ;
Serial.println() ;
Serial.end();

5

You might have to use Paste Special, and select one of the options Excel provides.

6

I'll try that.

Thanks,