nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial, SES Project/Options menu disable

[david224]

I am trying to setup (Nordic Edition) SES 5.10d for an example to download to the nRF52840 Dongle.

The tutorial* helpfully discusses how to avoid overwriting the MBR and bootloader on the Dongle.

In SES, the Project/Options menu item is disabled, and I cannot find how to enable it, to set :

Update the Preprocessor Definitions:  

```

BOARD_PCA10059

BSP_DEFINES_ONLY

CONFIG_GPIO_AS_PINRESET

FLOAT_ABI_HARD

INITIALIZE_USER_SECTIONS

NO_VTOR_CONFIG

NRF52840_XXAA

```

Adjust the linker configuration:  

```

Linker/Section Placement Macros

FLASH_PH_START=0X0

FLASH_PH_SIZE=0X100000

RAM_PH_START=0X20000000

RAM_PH_SIZE=0X40000

FLASH_START=0X1000

FLASH_SIZE=0XDF000

RAM_START==X20000008

RAM_SIZE=0X3FFF8

```

Any guidance?

* devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../nrf52840-dongle-programming-tutorial

[david224]

Ah, so I did install the nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee a couple of weeks ago, and likely opened one of those samples, when I set the above parameters.  So today, before I sent my request:

- updated to nRF Connect 3.6

- updated to nRF Connect SDK v1.4.0

Following your response just now I:

- select "Open IDE" from the Toolchain Manager

- then "File/Open nRF Connect SDK Project ...", which opens an nRF Connect Options dialog (very nice)

- choose Blinky (yes the Project/Options is disabled, but if I understand your answer, for my benefit)

- build, locate the zephyr.hex file, flash it to the Dongle with nRF Connect Programmer (since dongle does not have JLink)

- repeat the flash to prove I did not overwrite the MBR and bootloader

This worked. 

Thank you for clarifying that the Nordic SES + nRF Connect SDK correctly configure options for the Dongle.