VS Code for newbie

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago

Hi everyone,

so according news

News & Announcements

We gonna move very soon to VS Code...

But as a newbie and not real dev, I can't get it to work properly...

First I always had "TIMEOUT" message when I wanted to run the app

But I saw here it was due to blank space in path

I had for exemple D:\eclipse-workspace\SHN TxD so I renamed to D:\eclipse-workspace\SHN_TxD

in doing this, it seems to work (but not every time) but now can't open it anymore on ECLIPSE, even if I try to import it again, it never shows up...

Now the TIMEOUT is almost fixed, if I cange for exemple the font size of a custom font and run again the sim, no change...

It does not seem to update...

Do I miss something else?

Here is what I do when I work on a project

- I open the project folder (I remember Jim explained somewhere how to get all the project on the left but can't find it anymore)

- I do my changements

- I do "Run App" and select the appropriate project/devices

Other question if I may, on Eclipse it was easy to change the theme like I wanted (comment in grey etc)

but it does not seem easy on VSCode, is there any plugin/addon to do so?

As I said, I'm not a real dev, I only code with MonkeyC and at first sight VSCode is much complicated than Eclipse for a newbie...

If someone can bring me some advice or help, many thanks.

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sabeard over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) +1

I ended up putting my version number in my strings.xml resource. Then I have one place to reference it throughout the project. I don't even worry about the version number in the Manifest.

I am still…

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Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago

Another question:

How do I change my version number on my project?

if I do CTRL+MAJ+P and edit application, I can't change the version number, it opens the manifest.xml right after where it is written:

I guess I have to change my number here but not through VSCode?

sabeard over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

I ended up putting my version number in my strings.xml resource. Then I have one place to reference it throughout the project. I don't even worry about the version number in the Manifest.

I am still getting my feet wet with VS code, but did find the online documentation under the help menu quite useful.

jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to sabeard

One thing I found helpful, is if you use the project folders in your eclipse workspace as the folders in your VS Code workspace, it doesn't need to be a complete jump to VS code right away. If you are still figuring out VS Code, it's easy to just use Eclipse instead if you're stuck on how to do something.

Right now, in VS Code I'm set up to use the 4.1.0-beta1 SDK, while in Eclipse, 4.0.9. That way when I'm ready to build an iq file, I just use eclipse, as with 4.1.0 being a beta, you can't build an IQ.

peterdedecker over 4 years ago

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) said:
Other question if I may, on Eclipse it was easy to change the theme like I wanted (comment in grey etc)

but it does not seem easy on VSCode, is there any plugin/addon to do so?

yes there are many themes you can download, visit the vscode marketplace and select one to your liking: marketplace.visualstudio.com/search

there's also loads of plugins available to improve the vscode experience, I evaluated many of them, the ones I found useful I've listed here starttorun.info/.../

peterdedecker over 4 years ago

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) said:
How do I change my version number on my project?

why bother? afaik this version number isn't used anywhere.

I leave this at 1.0 and do versioning in git by tagging my commit (if I don't forget) and also in the connect iq store where I'm forced to assign a new version number if I upload a new version

jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to peterdedecker

The version in the manifest is used for barrels, but that's it, but even there I never change it.

peterdedecker over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

right, I don't use barrels. (because it does not support connect iq 1.x)

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago in reply to peterdedecker

Many thanks for this useful link, about your website, I've already been in it and downloaded some plugin, thanks for that also.

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago in reply to peterdedecker

oh ok! I've always changed it on every upload, but for nothing, I though it was important and has to match with the one we enter on the IQ store.