German keyboard trouble

Troubleshooting
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Hello,

there are limitations when using a german keyboard as discussed for instance on https://github.com/spark/particle-dev/issues/13 (and other places). There is a workaround but not a real solution. However, the actual version of atom seems to not exhibit the bug. So my question is: Will particle provide an actual software, and when this will be?

Alternatively, will it work if we add the particle packages manually to an actual atom installation? If possible: 32 or 64bit atom? In which order we should install the packages?

Best regards

Uli

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Hello,

Let me ping someone that might be able to help, @ScruffR are you able to assist?

Kyle

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@KyleG, unfortunately not.
I had a duscussion with Wojtek ages ago about this issue (even before my comment on the github issue), but this didnā€™t lead to a satisfying solution, hence the issue is still open on github.

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Hello,

I think for Atom 1.18.0 (x64) this issue is solved. I just confirmed it again: @ and backslash are OK. ParticleDev is based on Atom 1.8 (32bit), so the question still remains: Is it possible to import the different Particle packages into Atom 1.18 and what has to be observed?

Uli

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Hi Uli, yes it is possible to use Particle Dev packages in Atom by installing particle-dev-complete package. It does require node-gyp dependencies which on Windows are best installed with npm install --global --production windows-build-tools command.

Weā€™re going to update Particle Dev App to the newer version of Atom but weā€™re currently focused on improvements to the cloud compiler. Weā€™ll circle back asap.

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@suda, thanks for the explanation.

I installed the node-gyp dependencies as described (no error messages). Then I installed the particle-dev-complete package without error message. And I can find it in the list of installed packages. However, on every restart of Atom I see only a blue message on the top right corner:

ā€œInstalling particle-dev-complete dependencies
Installing particle-dev, particle-dev-cloud-functions, particle-dev-cloud-variables, particle-dev-profiles, particle-dev-librariesā€.

I assume I should see a new menu entry ā€œParticle Devā€ (or similiar) as in the Particle Dev application. But nothing is there.

Sorry, Iā€™m new to Atom and so possibly I did something wrongā€¦

Uli

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Oh maybe one of the packages didnā€™t install correctly. When you go to the installed packages list and search for particle-dev how many packages do you see being installed?

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There is only particle-dev-complete shown as installed.

I did some additional search. Looking at https://atom.io/packages/particle-dev and according to the procedure described there I did the following:

Again, when trying to install the particle-dev-complete package I got the same blue message in the top right corner.

After deinstalling the particle-dev-complete package I tried to install particle-dev alone and got the following error message:

npm WARN deprecated spark@0.5.10: Use particle-api-js instead
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-suda-node-serialport-git-release-4-0-1-46edaa09 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1a: Cloning into ā€˜C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1aā€™ā€¦
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-suda-node-serialport-git-release-4-0-1-46edaa09 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1a: error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-suda-node-serialport-git-release-4-0-1-46edaa09 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1a: fatal: unable to fork
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-suda-node-serialport-git-release-4-0-1-46edaa09 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1a:
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-spec-stubs-git-v0-0-2-4e445e78 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-00f096a7\9a38178961ec6958311156b4bc5193c003c45d5b: Cloning into ā€˜C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-00f096a7\9a38178961ec6958311156b4bc5193c003c45d5bā€™ā€¦
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-spec-stubs-git-v0-0-2-4e445e78 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-00f096a7\9a38178961ec6958311156b4bc5193c003c45d5b: error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-spec-stubs-git-v0-0-2-4e445e78 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-00f096a7\9a38178961ec6958311156b4bc5193c003c45d5b: fatal: unable to fork
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-spec-stubs-git-v0-0-2-4e445e78 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-00f096a7\9a38178961ec6958311156b4bc5193c003c45d5b:
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-views-git-v0-1-0-d5b9fd6e C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-b48319de\53c615628a635c895e0413acda0e5dff3b5a5a9d: Cloning into ā€˜C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-b48319de\53c615628a635c895e0413acda0e5dff3b5a5a9dā€™ā€¦
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-views-git-v0-1-0-d5b9fd6e C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-b48319de\53c615628a635c895e0413acda0e5dff3b5a5a9d: error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-views-git-v0-1-0-d5b9fd6e C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-b48319de\53c615628a635c895e0413acda0e5dff3b5a5a9d: fatal: unable to fork
npm ERR! git clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-spark-particle-dev-views-git-v0-1-0-d5b9fd6e C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-b48319de\53c615628a635c895e0413acda0e5dff3b5a5a9d:
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv ā€œC:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.18.0\resources\app\apm\bin\node.exeā€ ā€œC:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.18.0\resources\app\apm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.jsā€ ā€œā€“globalconfigā€ ā€œC:\Users\XXXXXX\.atom\.apm\.apmrcā€ ā€œā€“userconfigā€ ā€œC:\Users\XXXXXX\.atom\.apmrcā€ ā€œinstallā€ ā€œC:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\d-117523-8800-hyyqth.revky2pgb9\package.tgzā€ ā€œā€“runtime=electronā€ ā€œā€“target=1.3.15ā€ ā€œā€“arch=x64ā€ ā€œā€“global-styleā€ "ā€“msvs_version=2015"
npm ERR! node v6.9.5
npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
npm ERR! code 128

npm ERR! Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true clone C:\Users\XXXXXX.atom.apm_git-remotes\git-github-com-suda-node-serialport-git-release-4-0-1-46edaa09 C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1a
npm ERR! Cloning into ā€˜C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-5124-4cdbfc99\git-cache-3943db8d\65a9ad6308bb70caccc494bca3fbb9ffd34f0b1aā€™ā€¦
npm ERR! error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory
npm ERR! fatal: unable to fork
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR! https://github.com/npm/npm/issues

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\apm-install-dir-117523-8800-1fje0i1.9zaoe6ogvi\npm-debug.log

Uli