You seem to have some weird workspace setup. You have 3 workspace open at once and you have .code-workspace files in your src – these are not generated by PlatformIO. Where do they come from? Any third-party extensions installed which might conflict here?
First you should right-click on every folder in your work space and remove them from the workspace. Then use the left-side PlatformIO Icon to open PIO Home and re-open the project you want to work on.
Thanks for the quick response. Obviously I still have much to learn about Platformio.
I only see the one workspace - Radio_Mailbox_Master Workspace. Each of the subheadings (folders?) under the this Workspace are cloned GITHUB repositories for arduino programs (radio_mailbox_red, radio_mailbox_green, radio_mailbox_Yun_yellow- i deleted the 4th respository).
I have been modifying each of these programs, compiling, uploading, testing, updating GITHUB successfully until now when I no longer see the blue toolbar that you have at the bottom of your screen, which allows me to compile & upload to arduino boards and sync Github.
I am not aware of any conflicts and haven’t loaded any new components to PIO that I’m aware of.
I did as you suggested and then opened an old project I found at PIO home ( I couldn’t find the projects I was working on at PIO home, but they are in a folder on my PC).
Here is what it looks like now. Still no blue toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
I’m also missing the bottom blue toolbar. I’m new to VSC & Platform IO.
I’ve been trying to work through some Youtube tutorials, but I’ve never had that activities bar for building, etc. I’m using VSCode v 1.89.1. I didn’t see what wem did to fix it ? I did notice an error in the OUTPUT window of:
[6/2/2024, 5:56:14 PM] Unable to resolve configuration with compilerPath “c:\Users\User1\Downloads\Marlin-2.1.2\Marlin-2.1.2\Marlin 2.1.2 i3-PRO-B\Makefile”. Using “cl.exe” instead. Could that be related ?
Thanks sivar2311, it’s fixed. I deleted ALL previous projects and restarted VSC. After creating a new project the toolbar returned, and I changed the default color theme to Dark (Visual Studio) to make it blue. Why that has now been defaulted to grey, I have no idea ! Thanks again.