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Here’s an interesting question i’ he never seen before:
I am trying to compile onto my Arduino, Colorduino and/or Teenstduino some ParticleSystem animations. Jason Coon offered a Smart Matrix ParticleSys coding, Giladya offered code for the Colorduino/Rainbow boards and finally Mr Coin offered up code to work on WS2812/11 LEDs. The problems are that I don’t know how to direct the Arduino IDE as to what ParticleSys code it needs to find. It can’t tell any difference hence nothing works. Question: How do i direct the IDE to seek the right ParticleSys library so that the sketches compile correctly?
Thank you wise ones.

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Have downloaded the needed libraries, renamed them appropriately if needed, and saved them in your Arduino library folder (similar to the FastLED library)?

And then include the library you want to use in the top of your code, something like:

#include “FastLED.h”
#include “ParticleLibraryYouWantToUse.h”

You might need to experiment if the FastLED.h include line needs to go above or below the other library you’re using.

Posting your code and more specifics about the libraries you want to use might help in sorting this out.

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Hi. I’ve tried something similar such as renaming ParticalSys to ParticleSystem1 or ParticleSystemOriginal yet the IDE ignores the name and grabs, it seems at random, which ever ParticleSystem1 library it wants. What do you think if I remove all ParticlySys libraries from libraries then just before I compile, drop in the approprate Sys file into Arduino libraries? Of course i’d have to quit the IDE first, reload after I’ve moved the file then hit compile. Just seems like a lot of work for something that might not work.