Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others)

[Lorandil]

Describe the request

Allow Serial Monitor to be placed in a dedicated window separate from the primary Arduino IDE window.

🙂 It will be possible for the user to control the display location of the Serial Monitor separately from the primary Arduino IDE window according to their needs and preferences.
🙂 This will provide feature parity with the Arduino IDE 1.x Serial Monitor.

Describe the current behavior

Serial Monitor is a view in the bottom panel of the primary Arduino IDE window.

🙁 It is not possible to move Serial Monitor to a separate screen in order to dedicate all space on the primary screen to the Arduino IDE editor.

Arduino IDE version

Original report

2.0.0-beta.4

Last verified with

2.0.1-snapshot-32d904c

Operating system

All

Operating system version

Any

Additional context

The requested "tear off" capability would probably make sense for other windows ("Output" view) too.

Workaround

1. Select File > New Sketch from the Arduino IDE menus.
   A new Arduino IDE window will open.
2. Select Tools > Serial Monitor from the Arduino IDE menus.
   The "Serial Monitor" view will open in the bottom panel of the Arduino IDE window.
3. Hover the mouse pointer over the top border of the bottom panel.
   The mouse pointer will change into a resize icon.
4. Click and drag the border up until it reaches its maximum height.

You can now use that Arduino IDE window solely for Serial Monitor, switching back to the other Arduino IDE window to do sketch editing, compile, upload, etc. operations just as you would do with the Arduino IDE 1.x Serial Monitor.

Additional requests

• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Tear off serial monitor window (and maybe others) #289 (comment)
• Allow Output and Serial Monitor to be docked beside each other. #1799
• Drag Serial monitor window to the left or right side #1268
• Cannot undock Serial Monitor #755
• Serial Monitor does not open in seperate window or connect with boards #2131
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/making-the-serial-console-a-dockable-screen-again/1079586
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/ide-2-0-3-undocking-serial-monitor/1063170
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-ide-usb-serial-terminal-issues/1049458/13
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-to-get-all-my-1-18-19-libraries-installed-in-2-0-1/1050248/3
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serialmonitor-74880-baud-rate-in-ide-2-0-1/1046886
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/windows-the-serial-monitor-window-needs-to-pop-out-please/1036538
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/using-v-2-0-serial-monitor-print/1034093
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-2-0-0-macos-unexpected-differences/1033549
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/2-0-keyboard-shortcuts-dont-work/1033105/11
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-ide-2-0-0-available-for-download/1031651/17
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/1
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/3
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/4
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/15
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/changing-ide-fonts/1028827
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-issues-hopefully-fixed-before-release/1026548
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-seperate-window/1022661/1
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-seperate-window/1022661/2
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-seperate-window/1022661/5
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/automatic-build-external-screen-for-serial/1013958
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-with-new-ide/1010684/10
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/ide-2-0-rc5-serial-monitor-problems/978293
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-characteristics-fail/943590
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-to-dock-serial-monitor/942477
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-to-dock-serial-monitor/942477/12
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/no-support-for-esp32-boards-manager-2-01/940115/5
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/first-impressions-and-comments/930873
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/missing-serial-monitor-and-serial-plotter/924262
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-2-0-has-too-many-problems/1100602
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-2-0-has-too-many-problems/1100602/13
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/missing-baud-rate-dropdown-v2-0-4-ide/1105972
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-2-04-stuck-in-splash-screen/1107587/11
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/16
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/17
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-double-window-problem/1112463
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/18
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/ide-2-1-i-am-not-happy/1142471
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/ide-2-serial-monitor/1146303
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-a-separate-window/1031455/26
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/i-miss-my-separate-serial-monitor-window/1163606
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/cannot-upload-to-ftdi-megas-only/1170683
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/your-reason-for-not-switching-to-the-2-x-ide/1176322
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/your-reason-for-not-switching-to-the-2-x-ide/1176322/23
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-in-separate-window-larger-font-etc/1204423
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/adios-ide-2-0-this-is-goodbye-forever/1031455/46
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/undock-serial-monitor/1237489
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-monitor-not-in-separate-window-now/1299502/4
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/feeback-on-latest-2-x-ide-w-win11/1333594
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/critical-flaws-in-v2-ide/1335245
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• https://twitter.com/DevReliefFred/status/1696610597171773571
• https://twitter.com/PaulStoffregen/status/1658089036685410305

Issue checklist

• I searched for previous requests in the issue tracker
• I verified the feature was still missing when using the latest nightly build
• My request contains all necessary details

[fstasi]

@ironhal0 it's definitely in our roadmap and at the top of the list.

We are giving maximum priorities to bugs that compromise the standard usage, next will come performance and UX improvements, like this issue with the monitor. We already designed the new one that is gonna be a separate window like the serial plotter.

[Digitalwand123]

Regarding the Serial Monitor pop-up in a separate window -- I read Arduino comments on the benefits of not doing so, but there are also many reasons of indeed creating Serial monitor in a separate window. Often I have situations where I do need full windows to review data etc.

-- Why not have a flag to enable one option or the other.

On a side note, I noticed that also Manage Libraries is squeezed into main windows. I think the 1.8 version is more useful, but I can "live" with it. I believe the Serial Monitor pop-up is important -- at least to me

[kittaakos]

eclipse-theia/theia@a07b746

[per1234]

Hi all. We appreciate the feedback about how the Arduino IDE 2.x Serial Monitor can be improved. However, once the message has been received, additional comments that don't add any information of value only represent noise for those of us who watch this repository to keep up with the development work.

If you only want to express support for an existing comment then I suggest the use of GitHub's "Reactions" feature.

Any further comments will be expected to add unique, relevant, and valuable information on the subject. If we continue to get comments that don't add anything then I will be forced to lock this thread.

For more free ranging discussion, please use the Arduino Forum:

https://forum.arduino.cc/

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Per

[ubidefeo]

@wdoekes

It feels like the developers aren't using the IDE themselves

Do you realise how absurd that sounds?
We use the IDE, and so do many inside Arduino.
All of us sometimes experience some of our users' frustrations.

Give us the time to bring in the goods.
React with a 👍🏼 to an issue, we watch those

Cheers
ubi

[CptHolzschnauz]

Peace! Fingerpointing is not engineering. Something like https://ioninja.com/plugins/serial-monitor.html would be cool.
My wishes: A search field and a "triggerword" field e.g. when the triggerword appears in the monitor, it stops the autoscroll and a sound plays.
Maybe a seperate open-source based programm that can be run paralell to IDE 1 and 2 as well would be a solution?
Or the IDE 1 serial monitor pimped up as a fork? Any hints to a existing project, ideas etc. ?