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Mastering Arduino

You're reading from  Mastering Arduino

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830584
Pages 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
Profile icon Jon Hoffman

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface The Arduino Basic Electronics Circuit Diagrams Basic Prototyping Arduino IDE Programming the Arduino - The Basics Programming the Arduino - Beyond the Basics Motion Sensor Environment Sensors Obstacle Avoidance and Collision Detection Fun with Lights Fun with Sound Using LCD Displays Speech Recognition and Voice Synthesizing DC Motors and Motor Controllers Servo Motors Using a Relay Remotely Controlling the Arduino Creating a Robot Bluetooth LE Bluetooth Classic Another Book You May Enjoy

Adding tabs

As you begin to work with larger and more complex projects, it quickly becomes important to divide your code up into separate workspaces because it makes your code easier to manage. To do this, in both the Arduino IDE and the Web Editor, we can add new tabs to a sketch.

To add a new tab to the Arduino IDE, click on the button with an upside-down triangle in it that is located at the upper right side of the IDE window, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the window that pops up, click on the New Tab option, and you will see an orange bar below the code section of the Arduino IDE windows. In this orange bar, you can name the new tab and then press the OK button to create the tab. The following screenshot shows how to name the new tab:

Once you click OK a new tab is created, with the name you gave it, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can create a new tab...

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