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Visual Studio Code - Active Folder?

DaveBrillhart
over 1 year ago

Dumb User Question... 

I've converted over to VSC. Everything is working. I'm starting to add my Eclipse Projects over as needed. Using Add Folder to Workspace. I can edit/run/export projects.

But what I can't seem to figure out is how to select a folder to be the active folder. It appears (to me) that RaceGauge is selected. But when I Run -> Run Without Debugging... it is firing up my Dashboard project. Surely a simple CTRL key or something, right? How do I switch the project I want to run and/or export?

Thanks!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Well, the active project for the "Monkey C: Build Current Project" command (and other "Monkey C..." commands in the palette) is determined by the currently open file. Unfortunately, the Run command always seems to run the first project that was built since you opened VS Code. Not sure if this is a bug in the Monkey C extension or not. All I know is it doesn't seem to be a problem with other kinds of projects (like javascript).

    To facilitate choosing the project you want to run, create a launch config for each project:

    https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/debugging#_launch-configurations

    1) Click on the Run/Debug icon in the left sidebar

    You'll see something like the following screenshot when you have no existing launch configurations.

    2) Click "create a launch.json file". You'll be prompted to select a project and a debugger/language (choose "Monkey C")

    3) For subsequent projects, the UI for creating a launch.json file will look slightly different.

    The run/debug tab will show your existing launch configs in a dropdown. Open the dropdown to add additional projects:

    Once you've done that, you can select a project to run using the dropdown in the run/debug menu.