Creating VS Code Workspace With Multiple Projects?

Hello Everyone,

Would you help a newbie (in this space) to figure the way around to productivity with Connect IQ SDK in VS Code?

Things work (more or less) as expected when I create a new VS Code project from a template, say some sort of a MyFirstWatchface: I can run and debug the project, but there has to be a source file open. What confuses me here is as if there's no current project or anything of that sort in the opened workspace.

And then, if I go "File -> Add Folder to Workspace", say to open all or just one SDK samples, then even if I have some of those sample source files open, I only get to run/debug the project I first created in this workspace, MyFirstWatchface.

I really want to believe I'm doing something wrong here. I've tried looking around (https://www.peteravdjian.com/posts/2021/03/20/ciq-development-with-vscode/) but I don't see a way to have multiple projects (or functionality to import a project) into VS Code.

Any suggestions?

Kind regards,
H. S. Paradoxus

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FlowState over 2 years ago +1

H. S. Paradoxus said:
And then, if I go "File -> Add Folder to Workspace

Yes, that's the correct way to open multiple projects in VS Code.

H. S. Paradoxus said:
I only get to run/debug the project…
jim_m_58 over 2 years ago +1

My current workspace has a bunch of projects. Here's a screen shot and after the line, you see you can add new configs:

I select what I want to run, and then run it using the Run Menu. (run with debugging…

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0 FlowState over 2 years ago

H. S. Paradoxus said:
And then, if I go "File -> Add Folder to Workspace

Yes, that's the correct way to open multiple projects in VS Code.

H. S. Paradoxus said:
I only get to run/debug the project I first created in this workspace

Create a launch configuration (launch.json) for each project and you'll be able to select the project to run that way.

IIRC, you used to be able to run the project corresponding to the currently open source file, but I can't get that to work anymore.

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

My current workspace has a bunch of projects. Here's a screen shot and after the line, you see you can add new configs:

I select what I want to run, and then run it using the Run Menu. (run with debugging or without)

0 H. S. Paradoxus over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thank you, Jim. Would you let me see a fragment of your launch.json file pointing to a specific application? In my VS Code on MacOS in this dropdown list I don't see the options to add config for any given folder with code/sample application in it.