Migrating 2 year old Eclipse code base to VSCode - App not showing in the simulator

Hi,

I'm trying to modernize my app (https://github.com/arquicanedo/barbecueboss) and add new features. I didn't keep up with all the changes to the SDK and the use of VSCode.

Here is where I am at the moment:

I have a VSCode project in place
I got rid of all compilation errors (only left with warnings)
I can launch the simulator
I am able to inspect the Active Memory (see screenshot left hand side)

Unfortunately

A debug breakpoint at the entry point is never reached
I do not see any screen (see screenshot right hand side)
I was not able to reach the "stopAtLaunch" in the launch.json

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

What do you see in the VSC debug console or terminal? Anything about the sim timing out? What if you do Run>Run Without debugging?

The 4.1.6 and 4.1.7 SDKs have type checking on by default. Try adding this to your monkey.jungle file as it should reduce all the warnings you see

project.typecheck = 0

arqarq over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

jim_m_58 thanks for your help.

No, the simulator does not seem to be timing out.

I added the project.typecheck=0 and I got rid of 99% of warnings.

I had not looked at the debug console. The stack trace is being dumped there so I can now continue to debug my code. And I now see the "Encountered app crash" message so it is probably related to the old code.

Very helpful tips. Thanks again.

arqarq over 2 years ago

Closing this ticket. Problem fixed with the suggestions given below.