Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Under the
Sketch
tab, you will get the following options:
•
Verify / Compile
: This allows you to compile and verify your code. This checks
whether your code can actually be turned into a program that can be run on Ardu-
ino before you try and upload it to the hardware.
•
Show Sketch Folder
: This will open a window that shows all of the sketches in
the default directory.
•
Add File…
: This allows you to add a file to your sketch. Now that may seem odd
because you may have assumed that a sketch is a file. But a sketch can contain
code that is not just in one file but in several files. We will cover this feature later
in the chapter.
•
Import Library…
: This is an important option as it allows you to bring in code
capabilities that someone else developed; often this is associated with additional
hardware that you want to access. Arduino already comes with a large number of
functions that you have access to. You don't have to write these sets of code be-
