PlatformIO IDE 3.0 for VSCode 🚀

tookitogo · January 6, 2023, 4:16pm

In the release notes: “Added PlatformIO base commands to the Explorer context menu”

I really think you should undo this. As the name implies, a context menu is for commands specifically related to the thing you’ve right-clicked. Of the four commands you add to the Explorer context menu, three are global and redundant (PIO home, PIO core upgrade, and PIO open CLI); only the Rebuild IntelliSense Index command is potentially specific to the selected project (though it’s unclear to me whether it actually is context-aware).

All of those commands already have a home, so I think it’s a really bad idea to clutter up the Explorer menu, whose commands are very much file-management specific, with redundant, unrelated commands.

ivankravets · January 10, 2023, 12:59pm

Hi Antonio!
Thanks for the feedback. Agree with you. Fixed in

ivankravets · January 10, 2023, 1:01pm

Have you declared the tooltip field? See

github.com

platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/blob/develop/package.json#L840


      
                          "description": "The button command arguments",
                          "default": null
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          },
          "default": [
            {
              "text": "$(home)",
              "tooltip": "PlatformIO: Home",
              "commands": "platformio-ide.showHome"
            },
            {
              "text": "$(check)",
              "tooltip": "PlatformIO: Build",
              "commands": "platformio-ide.build"
            },

jason2866 · January 10, 2023, 1:28pm

Thx, thats working fine!!!

schreibfaul1 · January 11, 2023, 5:11pm

Yes, the example works fine. And so I came up with the idea of building a reset button for the ESP32. So far I have pressed CTRL t + CTRL d twice in the terminal.
My code is:

        {
            "text": "$(search-refresh)",
            "tooltip": "ESP32 Reset",
            "commands": [
                {
                    "id": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
                    "args":  {
                        "key":[
                            "ctrl+t",
                            "ctrl+d",
                            "ctrl+t",
                            "ctrl+d",
                        ]
                    },
                }
            ]
        }

but that doesn’t seem to be the right approach. Is that even possible?

ivankravets · January 11, 2023, 5:43pm

This is the terminal’s command, not “serial monitor”. The only option that comes to my mind is to create custom target and reset the board using PySerial API. Later, the custom task will be available in “Run task…”.

ivankravets · March 15, 2023, 1:49am

PlatformIO IDE 3.1.0 for VSCode is out!

Add support for the ${command:platformio-ide.activeEnvironment} variable that can be used in a custom PlatformIO Toolbar and VSCode variable substitution (issue #3588)
Focus on the project configuration output tab only on error (issue #3535)
Fixed an issue with a task runner on Windows 7 (issue #3481)
Fixed “Select All”, “Undo”, and “Redo” operations on macOS for PIO Home (pull #3451)
Fixed an issue when the “Upload & Monitor” task selects the wrong environment (issue #2623)

See PlatformIO IDE 3.1.0 for VSCode Release Notes for details.

Regards,
Your friends at PlatformIO

mukhin.dm · March 26, 2023, 6:50pm

Good afternoon.
Tell me how to add an icon to the toolbar in version 3.1 “Upload and Monitor” ?
Thanks
ToolBar

ivankravets · March 26, 2023, 9:30pm

See docs for the platformio-ide.toolbar setting.

mukhin.dm · March 26, 2023, 11:35pm

Thanks, it worked.
Is there any way to add an icon to this function?

ivankravets · March 27, 2023, 1:21am

Do you mean?

{
...
"text": "$(arrow-right)"
...
}

See also Product Icon Reference | Visual Studio Code Extension API

mukhin.dm · March 27, 2023, 11:10am

Thank you.
Everything turned out as I wanted.
Now, when programming microcontrollers, you can download and immediately open the port monitor with one button
Icons can be changed from the list
Product Icon Reference | Visual Studio Code Extension API
{
“text”: “$(run-all)”,
“tooltip”: “PlatformIO: Upload and Monitor”,
“commands”: “platformio-ide.uploadAndMonitor”
}

greenchain · May 9, 2023, 10:03am

Hi

I have recently encountered an issue where the project switcher button does not do anything anymore after updating. It used to open a dropdown of available projects. I have tried restarting.

Any ideas?

ivankravets · May 9, 2023, 10:17am

Do you use the latest VSCode? Also, do you have any extra extensions?

greenchain · May 9, 2023, 10:31am

Yes its the latest VSCode. I have Git extension pack and the C/C++ intellisense running

ivankravets · May 9, 2023, 10:40am

Could try to create another empty project? Could you reproduce this issue?

greenchain · May 9, 2023, 10:55am

On creation of the new project it switched to the new project ‘test’ but clicking on the button still does not bring the drop-down to switch. I can switch projects through the Platform IO project menu and select the project I want so I can work around it.

greenchain · May 9, 2023, 12:55pm

So there was a github issue with the platform.ini file that needed to be resolved on one of the open folders. This was causing the issue. Sorted now thanks

ivankravets · June 9, 2023, 8:51am

PlatformIO IDE 3.2.0 for VSCode is out!

Introducing a powerful linting feature that highlights syntactical and stylistic issues in the “platformio.ini” configuration file (issue #3723)
Improved project cleanup process by utilizing the fullclean target instead of cleanall. This ensures a thorough clean-up, including the removal of dependent libraries
Updated PlatformIO Core Installer Script to v1.1.3
Resolved an issue where certain buttons were missing from the status bar in VSCode 1.79 after the recent update (issue #3736)

See PlatformIO IDE 3.2.0 for VSCode Release Notes for details.

Regards,
Your friends at PlatformIO

ivankravets · July 10, 2023, 11:43am

PlatformIO IDE 3.3.0 for VSCode is out!

Enhanced the user experience in the “Project Tasks” explorer by displaying tasks specific to the selected environment by default
Introduced a new option that allows seamless switching between multi-environment project tasks
Expanded the functionality of the “Activity Bar > PlatformIO IDE > Quick Access” menu by including a new item called Serial & UDP Plotter
Updated the PlatformIO Core Installer Script to version 1.2.0

Toggle between Multi Environment Project Tasks

See PlatformIO IDE 3.3.0 for VSCode Release Notes for details.

Regards,
Your friends at PlatformIO