ArduBlock

ArduBlock is a Block Programming Language for Arduino. The language and functions model closely to Arduino Language Reference

Installation

The project is managed by Maven. After checking out the source for the first time, one should run the following to install Arduino's pde.jar into the local repository.

$ mvn validate

$ mvn clean package

Usage

$ mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.ardublock.Main"

Development

Change the /src/main/resources/com/ardublock/block/ardublock.xml to add new blocks to ArduBlock

$ mvn clean package

$ mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.ardublock.Main"

The Visual Block environment should show up. Happy Hacking! ;)

Eclipse

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Deploy

Edit code of ardublock

$ mvn clean package

copy the target/ardublock-all.jar to Arduino\tools\ArduBlockTool\tool

Authors

• David Li taweili@gmail.com
• HE Qichen heqichen@gmail.com

ToDo

• Integrate the scripting engine into the language blocks for code generation

License

Copyright (C) 2011 David Li and He Qichen

This file is part of ArduBlock.

ArduBlock is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

ArduBlock is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ArduBlock. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Changes by letsgoING

Contact: info@letsgoing.de Source: github.com/letsgoing

• changed Tool Name -> Context.java line 43
• added Zoom Buttons -> OpenBlocksFrame.java line 236-278
• added image processing for export -> OpenBlocksFrame.java line 142-175
• added LMS-Site Button
• added expert Mode Butten (Block-Menu-Switch) -> OpenBlocksFrame.java line 273-293
• added resetExpertState() fcn -> -> OpenBlocksFrame.java line 499-501
• added subroutine_var + subroutine_varret Blocks -> GenerateCodeButtonListener.java line 116-146
• added interrupt Blocks -> GenerateCodeButtonListener.java line 50 + 133-148 + 211-216
• added containsSetupCommand method -> Translator.java line 181-189
• Button Domain via ardublock.properties file
• removed "ABVAR_" Prefix and variable counter
• reorganized ardublock.xml, ardublock.properties, ardublock_de.properties and packages (menu structure)
• removed other language.properties-files (could be added again if needed)
• hack to remove \n at array declaration -> AutoFormat.java line 602-606
• removed \n after function declaration -> AutoFormat.java line 845
• removed headerCommand for subroutines (now done in BlockFiles)-> Translator.java line 78-85