I really hate the arduino IDE, no syntax error highlighting or auto complete for my own variables makes it really annoying. It also gets very messy when needing a lot of header files etc.
I've been trying to get it to work with VS code using the Arduino extension which has boards settings for the Giga and is supposed to give auto completetion and syntax error highlighting. I can compile and upload using this but syntax error highlighting and auto completion still doesn't work.
That thread is now closed so I can't post in it to ask further questions unfortunately. Also some time have passed since so maybe there is another solution now?
Has anyone managed to use anything else than arduino IDE to program the Giga?
The reason it is disabled by default is that the system is prone to occasional spurious "problem" detections. During the beta testing phase of the Arduino IDE 2.x development when it was enabled by report, we received a significant number of reports from less experienced users who were alarmed and distracted by the appearance of these diagnostic markers. For this reason, the decision was made to disable the feature by default.
Some of these spurious detections are the result of corner case mismatches in behavior between the Clang C++ compiler used by the language server that produces the diagnostics and the GCC compiler that is used to compile the sketch programs. An even more significant cause of spurious detections is that, in order to reduce the processing resource usage of the Arduino IDE application, a deferred library discovery system is used. This means that, between the time you add a new library to a sketch and the first time you compile the sketch after that, all references to objects from that library will produce diagnostics due to the path to the library not yet having been added to the compiler's "search path".
Even though it might not be suitable for a new user, a more experienced user has the ability to evaluate each of the problem detections and differentiate the legitimate ones from the spurious ones that should be ignored. I'll provide instruction you can follow to enable the feature:
Press the Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut (Command+Shift+P for macOS users) to open the "Command Palette".
A menu will appear on the editor toolbar:
Select the "Preferences: Open Settings (UI)" command from the menu. ⓘ You can scroll down through the list of commands to find it or type the name in the field.
A "Preferences" tab will open in the Arduino IDE main panel.
Type arduino.language.realTimeDiagnostics in the "Search Settings" field of the "Preferences" tab.
Check the box under the "Arduino › Language: Real Time Diagnostics" setting.
Close the Preferences tab by clicking its X icon.
You can put them under the src subfolder of the sketch.
Thanks I will try that! I got platform.io working finally so I will use VS code mostly as that's what I'm using for other stuff. But occasionally I still use the arduino IDE so that's helpful!
Hi melkerpetterson, You were able to get PlatformIO working - what was the degree of difficulty? I'm not a coder, but I'm at the point where I've written a few arduino sketches (state machines) for work that are functional. I'm exasperated with the arduino debugging situation, and it's causing me delays with a ton of work. Normally I would have chunked the giga long ago, but I'm tied to the display for the current project. I read through the post you linked, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Can you provide any guidance / advice on what you did to make PlatformIO work with the giga? Any help is appreciated- more than you know!!
