The board menu in 1.5 should have sub menus

[nfg42]

The Board Menu option should have a menu of the platforms then a sub-menu of the board types instead of just listing everything under the main Board menu.

[ffissore]

Current layout splits the board listing. If you think this is fine, please close the issue

[nfg42]

Sorry I should have been clearer. The real issue is that the current boards menu will cut off the bottom if the list is longer than the screen is tall. I just thought that it might look better if instead of a big list of all the possible boards, try to organize it a little. However, some sort of menu scroll or have multiple columns is needed though.

I guess you could always replace the boards menu with a popup too. Then you could do something cool like have the board layouts, links to the data sheets, or some compiler options too.

[sudar]

The real issue is that the current boards menu will cut off the bottom if the list is longer than the screen is tall.

This happens not just for board menu, but for any IDE menu in Ubuntu.

In Mac, the menu automatically scrolls if the height is higher than the screen height.

I don't have Windows, so I am not sure if this problem is present in Windows or not.

[ffissore]

@sudar can you confirm you're running IDE 1.5.4? Have you installed it from a ubuntu repo or have you downloaded it?

[PaulStoffregen]

The menus seem to scroll perfectly fine with 1.5.4 on Linux.

Maybe these comments were based on version 1.0.5, where the scroll wheel does not work on the menus?

[nfg42]

I just grabbed the 1.5.4 for windows and if the boards list is longer then the screen it still wouldn't scroll down the menu.

The computer I just used is win7 if that helps.

I'll try on my linux computer tonight and see if the menu scrolls correctly.

[JacobChrist]

This issue has been resolved in MPIDE, which I believe the current version
of the Arduino IDE back ports from so it should be little effort to pull
the changes from MPIDE for someone whom has the time.

Jacob

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:30 AM, nfg42 notifications@github.com wrote:

I just grabbed the 1.5.4 for windows and if the boards list is longer then
the screen it still wouldn't scroll down the menu.

The computer I just used is win7 if that helps.

I'll try on my linux computer tonight and see if the menu scrolls
correctly.

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[sudar]

can you confirm you're running IDE 1.5.4? Have you installed it from a ubuntu repo or have you downloaded it?

In Ubuntu, IDE 1.5.4 downloaded from Arduino website, the menu scroll works.

In Ubuntu, IDE 1.0.5 downloaded from Arduino website, the menu scroll does not work.

Maybe these comments were based on version 1.0.5, where the scroll wheel does not work on the menus?

Yes. these comments were based on version 1.0.5. Even though it is fixed in the 1.5.x branch, it would be nice if this will be fixed in 1.0.x branch as well.

[sudar]

@cmaglie confirmed that only bug fixes will go into 1.0.5 branch.

I guess we can close this bug then, since the feature is already implemented in 1.5.x and works.

[nfg42]

I wasn't talking about 1.0.5. I was talking about 1.5.2 a year ago. And Yes it still doesn't work with 1.5.4 in windows. So the issue is not fixed.