CubeIDE 2.0 does not open .ioc files

Dega · ‎2025-11-18

Hello,

Has the integrated support for CubeMX been removed in the new CubeIDE?

I just updated to the latest (2.0) and now, when clicking on the ioc file of a project (created with previous version 1.19), CubeMX opens up.

The top right corner has also changed.

Also all the new project dialogs have changed, and it does not generate an ioc file anymore... Did my update went wrong somehow?

Leon3 · ‎2025-12-09

Unbelievable this happened. Over the years, CubeIDE has become a very good well integrated environment and with this move it degraded to a *** tool for working on STM32 projects.

I immediately uninstalled version 2 and went back to version 1.19 which luckily still works as expected.

ST, please return the integrated access to IOC files since this is what is needed for an integrated development environment. All the mentioned reasons for decoupling may be true but only focus on the advantages. The main topic is usability and this is hurt bigtime.

Andrew Neil · ‎2025-12-09

@Leon3 see this thread for a discussion on the change: IDE Version 2.0.0 - why remove MX?

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.

programmer131 · ‎2025-12-10

Maybe ask the engineers in their 40s and 50s before moving all the furniture? We memorized where everything was in CubeIDE. This isn't an upgrade.

Andrew Neil · ‎2025-12-11

@programmer131 wrote:
Maybe ask the engineers in their 40s and 50s before moving all the furniture?

The youngsters, then?

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.

Baris_DSP · ‎2025-12-11

Why did you ruin a perfectly good and smoothly functioning system like this? Everything could be done within a single program; why now do we have to use two separate programs and also consider their compatibility? Please think about beginners and enthusiasts, and bring back the previous feature. There's no logical explanation for changing this just to save a few MB of RAM.

Andrew Neil · ‎2025-12-11

@Baris_DSP wrote:
just to save a few MB of RAM.

No, That's not the reason - See the discussion here

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.

tdecker2 · ‎2025-12-12

If someone had asked me (engineer in his 40s or 50s), I would have said: Yes please, remove it. I always used the external CubeMX application.

But I don't care anymore... using VSCode with Zephyr now. CubeMX is only used for pin planning, not for generating code.