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Ringo Educational Guide Rev04.1 ~ Plum Geek
Ringo_Example
FunStuff.h FunStuff Navigation.h Navigation
This is the tab you’ll do most of your work in.
Ignore these extra tabs for now.
Drop down to see hidden tabs.
Software Installation
Arduino likes to store all the files associated with a sketch in a single folder. It
then opens the main sketch (the first tab) as well as any additional files it finds
in the folder. The additional files are opened in additional tabs across the top of
the IDE window.
Don’t let these extra tabs intimidate you. For now you can largely ignore them.
These extra tabs hide the background functions used by Ringo. Rather than
install them as a library (in which case they wouldn’t appear as tabs), we’ve
included them with each sketch so more advanced users can easily study and
edit them. As you are getting started, keep all your code in the first tab, which
has the same name as the file name of the sketch you are working on.
Those more experienced with coding are encouraged to have a look at these
extra tabs. Feel free to modify or improve them as the Ringo software is a work
in progress and we welcome the user community to add features and make
improvements. There are more tabs than are visible in the window (unless you
really stretch out the window). To access the hidden tabs, use the drop down
arrow circled above.
A quick note about tabs in the Arduino IDE...